The Current Thing

The Current Thing

Comedian and commentator Nick Dixon talks to fascinating guests about politics, the culture war, and anything else that comes up.

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May 13, 2024 74 mins
Highly acclaimed author and commentator Lionel Shriver discusses her new novel, 'Mania'. Topics include: -Why she choose IQ as the topic of her new book  -Why the left are ‘obsessed with sameness’ -Where ideological ‘manias’ come from and what the next hysteria will be  -The flawed thinking behind ‘social justice’  -The literary influences on her writing  -Why some people conform with social fads and others do not  -The inherent co...

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Deputy leader of Reform UK Ben Habib joins Nick to discuss:  -Why Reform UK allowed leftist activists to cancel its candidates -How to tackle immigration  -Why woke and DEI have got to stop -How to fix the UK's economy -His views on Net Zero  -Why voting Reform is not just a vote for Labour  -Whether Reform UK is actually a conservative party -How close Britain is to becoming a third world country  -Why he got into politics  -The '...

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Carl Benjamin AKA Sargon returns to the podcast for a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion on: -Whether it could become illegal to be a conservative -Why liberalism leads to communism -Whether woke will be 'put away' or not -The ironic flaws of diversity casting -Whether things like the Cass Review will change anything in the culture war -Why Labour might actually be better than the Tories -Why feminists hate women  -Whether Tru...

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GB News presenter and comedian Mark Dolan drops by our new studio to chat with Nick about: -The future of GB News  -How Covid woke him up  -How to fix the immigration problem -Whether he has changed his mind on Brexit -How to win the culture war  -His thoughts on Liz Truss's time as PM -Why he is still optimistic about Britain -The state of comedy in a woke world -How he keeps a positive mindset -Why he always insures his white goo...

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The Rev Dr Jamie Franklin returns for his best episode yet! Nick and Jamie discuss:

-Richard Dawkins' comments on 'cultural Christianity' -Pascal's wager -What Toby Young and David Starkey get wrong about Christianity -Whether Christianity leads to wokeness -The failures of liberalism -The flaws in the atheist argument for the beginning of the universe -The questionable foundations of the 'New Atheism' m...

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This week Nick and The Radical English Gentleman (AKA Woke Zoomer Rory) discuss: -The William Wragg sext scandal -Angela Rayner's lies about her house -How the Tories keep conservative candidates out of the party -Rishi's Adidas Sambas -Reform UK dropping more candidates, and whether Farage will return -The death of British aid workers in Gaza, and whether Boris Johnson is a warmonger -Richard Dawkins' comments on regretting the de...

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Hope you had a great Easter. We had a very short Easter break, hence this coming out a day late. But it is a great discussion with based genius filmmaker and friend of the podcast, Alexander McCarron. We discuss: -Sunak's disastrous poll numbers, and what it all means -How authoritarian / effective a Labour government will be -Whether we are stuck in an 'inverse Greta' doomer bubble -Scotland's new hate crime law -What Reform UK ge...

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March 25, 2024 97 mins

Simon Evans returns to talk about: -Scotland's insane new hate crime law -Whether woke is ending -The survival chances of Rishi Sunak -Whether Trump is a real threat to the deep state -The pros and cons of liberal democracy -Aristocracy vs meritocracy and loads more!

Follow Simon on X: https://twitter.com/TheSimonEvans Go to his website: https://thesimonevans.com

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The Rev Dr Jamie Franklin returns for a fascinating episode that will be enjoyed by atheists, Christians, and probably even pagans. We exam a number of pressing social, spiritual, and ethical issues with the benefit of Jamie’s wider philosophical insights. Topics discussed include:

-Justin Welby’s pathetic endorsement of Ramadan at the expense of any Christian message -Keir Starmer’s terrifying intention...

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This week Nick and The Radical English Gentleman (AKA Zoomer Rory) discuss: -Rory's observations on the ground at George Galloway's Rochdale campaign -The Met Police's dubious arrest of a man with a factual sign about Hamas -The attack on the Lord Balfour painting  -The shocking revelations about WPATH -Biden's bizarre State of the Union speech And more!

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March 4, 2024 123 mins
Academic Agent joins us for an epic podcast on a broad range of topics, including: -His theory that the Regime will ‘put the woke away’ -What would have happened if Jeremy Corbyn had won the General Election  -Why platforms like GB News should stop talking about woke all the time -Who are the actual ruling elite, and what scares them? -The alarming extent of the CIA’s role in shaping politics  -The surprising origins of the liberal...

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February 26, 2024 75 mins

Paul Cox returns to talk about the chaos in parliament, the suspension of Lee Anderson, and the future of Islam in the UK. It is a lot more fun than those topics would suggest!

Paul's X: https://twitter.com/PaulCoxComedy Paul's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@paulcoxcomedy Paul's comedy clubs: https://www.epiccomedy.co.uk/

Nick's X: https://twitter.com/nickdixoncomic Nick's Substack: nickdixon.substack.com Nick's YouTube (with a...

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February 19, 2024 63 mins

This week Nick and Zoomer Rory discuss: -The Tory by-election defeats in Wellingborough and Kingswood -The silent disco at Canterbury Cathedral -The meaning of Lent -The Girls Gone Bible viral clip  And loads more!

Nick's X: https://twitter.com/nickdixoncomic Nick's Substack: https://nickdixon.substack.com Nick's YouTube (with all Current Thing episodes): https://www.youtube.com/@nickdixoncomedy

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February 12, 2024 57 mins

Nick is interviewed by Professor Edward Dutton of The Jolly Heretic about the decline of comedy. This interview was previously only available behind a paywall at https://www.jollyheretic.com, but Ed has kindly allowed us to release it here.  

Follow Ed on X: https://twitter.com/jollyheretic YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheJollyHeretic Substack: https://www.jollyheretic.com/

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February 5, 2024 107 mins

Awesome conversation with OG of the Red Pill John Sonmez, of Bulldog Mindset, a YouTube channel and membership site he took to 360k subscribers. John talks about:

-His incredible physical and mental transformation -His friendship with Andrew Tate and what he thinks of him now -How he became one of the founders of the Red Pill movement and why he left it  -How he got cancelled by the tech industry  -Why h...

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January 29, 2024 65 mins

Our old friend Leo Kearse returns to talk about: -Why no one wants to join the army -The plot to oust Rishi Sunak  -The future of party politics in the UK  -Why he still prefers DeSantis to Trump -Events in Texas and the possible civil war in America -The decline of DEI -The birth rate problem   And loads more! Nick's X: https://twitter.com/nickdixoncomic Nick's Substack: https://nickdixon.substack.com Nick's YouTube...

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This week Nick debates Rory on their respective predictions for 2024. They discuss:

-Why Zoomers are so useless -Whether Reform can take over from The Conservative Party -Israel vs Palestine -DEI, and the Claudine Gay scandal at Harvard -Whether woke will be defeated in 2024 -Trump vs Biden  And loads more!

Nick's X: https://twitter.com/nickdixoncomic Nick's Substack: https://nickdixon.substack.com Nick's YouTube (wit...

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Slightly different episode today. The Rev Dr Jamie Franklin considers Nick's many mental health problems from a Christian perspective. There is also banter. Nick and Jamie talk about:

-Whether Christians should ever get depressed -Demonic possession and exorcisms   -Whether feminism is rooted in the occult -St Paul and St John of the Cross’s views on mental health -Jamie's fear of not having enough time to do everythi...

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January 8, 2024 66 mins

Fascinating conversation with demographer and author Paul Morland, on one of the most important problems facing humanity: the collapse of birth rates. Paul talks about: -Why the elites still believe in the overpopulation myth  -How we can solve the fertility problem  -The reasons people stop having children  -Why immigration does not work as a substitute for adequate birth rates -The failure of our politicians to tackle this crucia...

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December 18, 2023 78 mins

In a special one-off show, Nick becomes the guest and is interviewed by Rory Jacobs of the Radical English Gentleman podcast. It turns out to be Nick's most personal interview ever. Nick talks about: -His childhood -Why he started comedy  -Why he defends Andrew Tate -What Christianity means to him -The biggest problem facing the UK And loads more!

Nick's X: https://twitter.com/nickdixoncomic Nick's Substack: https://n...

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