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The Same Drugs

Meghan Murphy and guests embrace authenticity, and have real, honest discussions about culture, politics, relationships, psychology, health, social media, cancel culture, and more. Conversations outside the algorithm.

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00:54:05

Julie Bindel: the OG journalist who fought trans...

The Same Drugs ·

2024/02/27

Julie Bindel is a longtime journalist and feminist who was among the first to push back against trans-identified men attempting to access women-only spaces, when she wrote an article called "Gender benders, beware" for The Guardian. Julie has been attacked, harassed, slandered, and no-platformed ever since, but she never left the fight, despite being mostly alone in her push back in the media and journalistic world for many years. In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Julie about her

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01:13:47

The Coddling of the American mind comes to life

The Same Drugs ·

2024/02/20

We are told Gen Z is plagued with mental health problems — deathly afraid of disagreement, life, Donald Trump, one another… What is going on? Is the younger generation’s mental health crisis real? If so, is there a resolution?You likely all read (or at least heard about) Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s game-changing book, “The Coddling of the American Mind.” Now the book is coming to life in documentary form. Directed by Ted Balaker, the film follows five twenty-somethings who entered college

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01:25:45

Rob Henderson on class, luxury beliefs, the foster...

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2024/02/12

Rob Henderson grew up poor, with a drug-addicted mother — abandoned and shuffled around for years through the foster care system. As a result of an unstable upbringing and related trauma, he struggled through school, with substance abuse, and with things like anxiety and depression, but prevailed, joining the Air Force at 17 and eventually making it to Yale University, where he studied psychology, going on to complete a Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Cambridge. Rob made it out of his

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01:25:50

Two of Justin Trudeau's political prisoners have been...

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2024/02/10

Two of the four men who were arrested in February 2022 in Coutts, Alberta, accused of conspiracy to commit murder and mischief, have been released from prison. On Tuesday, the Crown dismissed conspiracy to commit murder of police officers and mischief charges against Chris Lysak and Jerry Morin, reaching a plea deal with both on minor firearms charges. The charges the two men pleaded guilty to were never part of the original indictment that led to the arrests of the Coutts Four. Chris Carbert and

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01:02:56

The Canadian government is finally being held to...

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2024/02/06

In January, a Canadian court ruled in favour of citizens who participated in the 2022 Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, determining that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act was unconstitutional and without legal justification. The Emergencies Act was invoked on February 14, 2022 by the Federal Cabinet in an effort to shut down the peaceful protests happening in opposition to Covid-related mandates and restrictions. As a result of this decision, hundreds of Canadians had

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01:17:43

Why has America become the most dangerous place to...

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2024/01/28

How did America, of all places, become the most dangerous place for a woman to give birth? Why have c-sections been on the rise in recent decades? Why do so many women have traumatic birth experiences in the hospital? How can those experiences be improved, in order for the mother to feel empowered? And why is the birthing community adopting “gender neutral” language like “chest feeding” and “birthing person” to describe something inarguably sexed? Cynthia Overgard is a hypnobirthing instructor and

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01:26:56

Graham Linehan went from beloved TV writer to hated...

The Same Drugs ·

2024/01/23

Graham Linehan was a well-known, well-liked, successful TV writer, living his dream in a career he loved and worked hard at. Speaking up in defense of women's rights and spaces changed all that, almost in an instant. The moment Graham was labelled a TERF, he became persona non grata. He lost his career, his friends, his Twitter account, his mental health, and his marriage. In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Graham about his career, his new memoir, Tough Crowd, and whether or not good

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00:56:18

Arden Young went undercover to get the truth about...

The Same Drugs ·

2024/01/09

Arden Young went from Hollywood to journalism, and is blowing the lid off of the porn industry’s lies. She went undercover to talk to Pornhub employees about everything from whether they thought porn use was healthy to how they pushed so-called “tranny porn” on men to how easy it is for underage and non-consensual videos to go up on the site. In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Arden about her investigations and her own journey from acting to reporting on porn industry lies. Find more of her

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01:50:59

2023: Clown year for Canada, with Jon Kay

The Same Drugs ·

2023/12/30

Jonathan Kay is a Canadian journalist, author, editor of Quillette, and host of the Quillette podcast. Find him on Substack at Deeply Problematic. In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Jon their recent free speech event in Toronto, the 50-year-old York prof competing in swimming competitions against girls, and why Toronto City council voted to rename Yonge-Dundas Square “Sankofa Square.” The Same Drugs is a fully independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠supporting us

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01:20:36

Is Justin Trudeau punishing the Coutts Four for his...

The Same Drugs ·

2023/12/18

Meghan Murphy speaks with Gord Magill, a Canadian trucker who has been among the very few fighting to get the real story about the Coutts Four out, despite media silence. Meghan and Gord speak about why it was the truckers that saved Canada from the Covid mandates and why Trudeau is allowing four men to languish in prison without bail and without evidence of intent to commit the crimes they are accused of. Find Gord's writing on at Autonomous Truckers. His podcast is Voice of Go(r)d. The Same

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00:50:48

Climate change isn't everything

The Same Drugs ·

2023/12/03

Mike Hulme is a Professor of Human Geography and head of the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on representations of climate change in history, culture, and media, and the ways in which climate change is deployed in public and political discourse. Mike's 2009 book, Why We Disagree About Climate Change, was chosen as one of The Economist's books of the year, and looks at how the idea of climate change has taken such a dominant position in modern

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01:03:44

Philip Slayton on antisemitism, Jewishness, and free...

The Same Drugs ·

2023/11/27

Philip Slayton is a Canadian lawyer, author, and past president of PEN Canada, a branch of an international non-profit defending free expression. His most recent book is Antisemitism: An Ancient Hatred in the Age of Identity Politics. In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Philip about free speech in Canada, where antisemitism comes from, what it means to be a Jew, and whether or not a line needs to be drawn around so-called "hate speech." The Same Drugs is a fully independent,

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01:09:30

'This is punishment for dissent'—C.J. Hopkins: tried...

The Same Drugs ·

2023/11/15

C.J. Hopkins is a Berlin-based playwright, novelist, and satirist. His most-recent essay collection is The Rise of the New Normal Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III. In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with him about being charged by a German court for a satirical tweet, his thoughts on the Gaza/Israel conflict, the fight against online censorship, what the new totalitarianism looks like, and how he plans to fight back. The Same Drugs is a fully independent, listener-supported podcast. Please

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01:26:58

Joe Allen: Don't turn your humanity over to the machine

The Same Drugs ·

2023/11/06

Our world and day to day lives have changed drastically in a very short period of time. Technology has gone from an addition to our lives to our way of life — most of us can't operate without it. And most of us have gone along willingly — enthusiastically even — with this technocultural revolution. But what are the consequences of melding man with machine? What have we handed over in trusting our devices with our lives? Can we get it back? In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Joe Allen,

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00:53:43

'These are not morally equivalent things' — Batya...

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2023/10/26

Batya Ungar-Sargon is the opinion editor at Newsweek, author of Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, and a columnist at Compact. In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Batya about the horrific attacks Hamas perpetrated against Israel this month, the response, what “Free Palestine” really means, why Israel has been labelled a “colonizer,” and whether there is any possibility of resolution between Palestine and Israel. The Same Drugs is a fully independent, listener-supported

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01:20:35

Gurwinder Bhogal on the gamification of society and...

The Same Drugs ·

2023/10/23

Why do young men find extremism? Why do liberal women suffer from more mental health problems than conservative women? Why do Westerners imagine problems that aren't there? How has tech incentivized us into unhappiness? Gurwinder Bhogal left his career in tech to become an "amateur psychologist," studying extremism, how tech is changing society, why smart people believe stupid things, and our modern mental health crisis. In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Gurwinder about the

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01:14:41

Bethany Mandel on parenting in the age of Covid,...

The Same Drugs ·

2023/10/10

Bethany Mandel is a political commentator, homeschooling mom of six, co-founder of Right Books 4 Kids, and co-author of "Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation." In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with her about what kids and parents are facing today in the era of mask mandates, Covid lockdowns, gender identity ideology in schools, and smartphones. The Same Drugs is a fully independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider ⁠supporting us

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01:21:02

Michael Malice on Canadian TV, Canadian accents, and...

The Same Drugs ·

2023/09/29

In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Michael Malice, a Ukrainian-American anarchist, the host of "YOUR WELCOME," and the author of numerous books, including The New Right and The Anarchist Handbook. His most recent book is The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil, which follows the bloody Russian Revolution from start to finish. Meghan speaks with him about communism, authoritarianism, why people became evil during Covid, and whether there is hope for Canada. The Same Drugs is a fully

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00:44:43

Tucker Carlson is not who the left says he is

The Same Drugs ·

2023/09/18

Chadwick Moore is a journalist, a contributing editor at The Spectator, and the author of Tucker, a recently released biography of Tucker Carlson. In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Moore about who Tucker really is, beyond the vitriol we hear so often from progressives. Addendum: Unfortunately the mic quality is low in this interview, on account of a tech mishap. The Same Drugs is a fully independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider ⁠supporting us with a donation⁠, by

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00:56:48

April Hutchinson is a Canadian powerlifter who won't...

The Same Drugs ·

2023/09/08

April Hutchinson is a Canadian powerlifter who has overcome child sexual trauma, alcoholism, and is now fighting to save her sport from men. Hutchinson, a member of the Canadian powerlifting team, spoke out after discovering a 6'2" male going by the name Anne Andres was competing as a woman. Andres claimed the gold medal at the Canadian Powerlifting Union's women's regional championship in August, lifting 1,327lbs (calculated from the combined weight of three lifts: squat, bench,

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