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Journalist Tony Ortega joins me to discuss the law suits currently affecting Scientology. This episode originally aired live on the Shaun Attwood youtube channel, and is part of a larger show from the Shaun Attwood true crime podcast. So this was live, in front of a big audience of people saying lots of things. Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wren...

I'm sharing a bonus episode from a podcast I love, Revisionist History. Revisionist History is bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about things misunderstood and overlooked. This season, Malcolm’s obsessed with experiments – natural experiments, scientific experiments, thought experiments. In this episode, Revisionist History explores a category of privilege that’s often ignored: age. He...

Today, writer comedian and actor Maddy Anholt talks to us about how to leave your psychopath. That’s also the name of the book, which I would thoroughly recommend as it is really funny while also being quite daunting, sad and informative. Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wren will plant 10 extra trees in your name! Maddy Anholt links: https://twitte...

Professor David Farina is known online for his YouTube channel Professor Dave Explains, in which he helps people understand the basics, and sometimes the complexities of science, particularly chemistry.  Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wren will plant 10 extra trees in your name! Professor Dave links: https://twitter.com/daveexplains https://www.yo...

Kevin Annett is a former minister of the United Church of Canada, he holds masters in Political Science and Divinity. After exposing the murder of children at his church’s Alberni Indian Residential School, he was unceremoniously fired and expelled from the ministry. My Saturday episodes are usually plucked from the livestream that I do on Wednesdays on the Shaun Attwood channel. That means that t...

Jacques Peretti is a multi-talented journalist, writer and documentary maker who, in his podcast "Edge of Reality', investigated the suicides in reality tv shows. Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wren will plant 10 extra trees in your name! Jacques Peretti links: https://twitter.com/jacquesperetti https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Edge-Of-Reality-The-Sto...

Rutherford was raised by adoptive parents in Toronto, where he had something of a neglectful or abusive childhood. After decades of dead ends he managed to track down his biological mother, who told him who his father was. And that father… well perhaps I’ll let Rutherford explain what he did. But it’s about as dark as it gets. Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate c...

Harvard Lawyer Lee is what she goes by online, and Lee is a 30-year trial attorney, mediator and of course Harvard Law Grad. She is also now a youtuber, part of the lawtubers that are becoming extremely popular online. It’s one of my Saturday episodes, and these are usually a little different, as they are done live in front of an audience on the Shaun Attwood youtube channel on Wednesday nights, S...

Kati Morton is a licensed marriage and family therapist, who has appeared everywhere from CNN and ABS to The Hollywood Reporter and Huffington Post. Her Youtube page covers everything from psychopathy and schizophrenia to eating disorders and different types of depression. Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wren will plant 10 extra trees in your name!...

Vicky Baker is a BBC journalist and is here to talk about a mafia of psychics who colluded to share information about their clients.  Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wren will plant 10 extra trees in your name! Vicky Baker links: https://twitter.com/vickybaker https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bk74xd/episodes/downloads https://www.bbc.co.uk/progra...

Karthik Sekar is senior data analyst at Climax Foods and the author of After Meat. This was part of the Shaun Attwood true crime podcast, a segment in a 4 hour show. And since it went out live online on Shaun’s youtube channel, you’ll hear me interacting with the viewers. Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wren will plant 10 extra trees in your name!...

Andrew Doyle is a writer and comedian, and has just devoted a beautifully written and well researched book about why woke culture and social justice are religious: The New Puritans: How the religion of social justice captured the western world.  Andrew Doyle links: https://twitter.com/andrewdoyle https://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Puritans-Identity-Politics-Dominant/dp/0349135320/ https://www.amazon.co....

This is episode number 160, and today I wanted to show you the episode in which Amanda Knox – a former guest on this podcast – and her husband Christopher Robinson – turn the mic on me. They interviewed me about my work on paedophilia for their brilliant and acclaimed podcast Labyrinths, and I was really impressed with the outcome. At the end of the episode with Amanda, I’m including one of my fir...

Jim was appointed to take part in the Mads Brügger movie The Mole. Named as Mr. James, he was tasked with pretending to be an investor in North Korea. Jim Latrache links: https://twitter.com/jimqvortrup Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wren will plant 10 extra trees in your name! Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com...

Daniella Mestyanek Young was born into the Children of God cult, where she was subjected to all sorts of abuse as a child. Daniella M Young links: https://www.uncultureyourself.com https://www.amazon.co.uk/Uncultured-Memoir-Daniella-Mestyanek-Young-ebook/dp/B09NTK34N7 https://twitter.com/daniellamyoung Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wren will plan...

Dr. Sohom Das is a forensic psychiatrist and the creator of the YouTube channel 'A Psych For Sore Minds'. Go check it out! Link below. Dr Sohom Das links: https://twitter.com/Dr_S_Das https://www.youtube.com/c/APsychForSoreMinds Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

My thoughts on the breaking news about writer Salman Rushdie + a clip from ex-Muslim Yasmine Mohammed, from episode 35 of On the Edge with Andrew Gold: https://pod.fo/e/b0988 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Codella is a former NYPD detective sergeant, who worked as an undercover officer and was heavily involved with the missing persons squad, special frauds squad and west African task force. Mike Codella links: https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Codella/e/B004GW46Q2%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share https://twitter.com/codellaacademy https://www.amazon.com/Alphaville-Welcome-Michael-Unabridged-Paperbac...

Doug Kramer was forced into the cult of scientology at nine years old when his father decided it would be a good idea for the family. Today he talks to me about the way that scientology and other cults like it manipulate people into signing up.  Doug Scott Kramer links: https://www.youtube.com/c/DazedbutNotConfuzed https://twitter.com/dougscottkramer Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgol...

Matt Thornton is a prominent Jiu Jitsu trainer, and has trained such high profile names as Conor McGregor.  Matt Thornton links: http://mattthornton.org https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gift-Violence-Practical-Knowledge-Surviving/dp/1634312309 https://twitter.com/aliveness_ape Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more a...

Benjamin Boyce is a youtuber known for his CalmVersations, where he has very calm dialogues with various speakers of renown. I’m even one of them, bringing the tone of his show right down, so do check that out on the Benjamin A Boyce youtube channel. Benjamin Boyce links: https://www.youtube.com/c/benjaminaboyce https://twitter.com/BenjaminABoyce Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 h...

Bill Edgar is the Coffin Confessor. People with not long to live go to Bill to ask him to get up and say certain things at their funerals, or to get things done once they pass on. You can find our first chat on episode 19, so about 2 years ago, on this podcast. Bill Edgar links: https://www.billedgar.com.au https://twitter.com/coffinconfessor https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Coffin-Confessor/dp/B0933G...

Elgen Strait grew up in the Moonies cult, also known as the Unification Church. Elgen Strait links: https://www.fallingoutpod.com https://twitter.com/elgenstrait Falling Out Pod Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Black Belt Barrister gives free legal advice on his very popular YouTube channel, and we will talk today mainly about big celebrity cases. Black Belt Barrister links: https://www.youtube.com/c/blackbeltbarrister https://twitter.com/dshensmith Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. V...

When Sarah Ferris’ sister became involved with a new man who seemed too good to be true, Sarah’s spidey senses were tickled. Sarah tells her story of how they turned the tables, and conned the con, in her excellent podcast Conning the Con. Sarah Ferris links: Conning the Con Klooghless Stop the Killing https://www.instagram.com/conmunitypodcast/ Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 ht...