{"podcast":{"title":"The Peter McCormack Show","slug":"the-peter-mccormack-show-525419","podcast_index_feed_id":525419,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/69d4f193b76468caacc5068f","website_url":"https://www.petermccormack.com/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/69d4f193b76468caacc5068f/show-cover.jpg","author":"Peter McCormack","episode_count":1075,"summary":"The Peter McCormack Show - politics, macro, Bitcoin and AI, long-form interviews. Twice-weekly conversations about money, power, and the shifts reshaping the next decade. Peter McCormack interviews politicians, economists, investors, journalists, founders and Bitcoiners. Past guests include Liz Truss, Lyn Alden, Curtis Yarvin, Matt Goodwin, Mike Green, Balaji Srinivasan, Rupert Lowe, Firas Modad, Scott Horton, Jeff Booth, Connor Leahy, Andrea Miotti, Neema Parvini, Dr Tim Gregory and Simon Dixon. Recurring threads: the debt and inflation endgame, UK political collapse and what comes after, Reform and the populist wave, the Middle East and the American war machine, AI safety and the race for superintelligence, energy and net zero, Bitcoin adoption and policy, and the slow-motion decline of Western institutions. Long-form - most episodes run 60 to 120 minutes. New episodes 2 to 3 times per week. Video on YouTube and Spotify. Host: Peter McCormack, a retired rapper from Bedford, UK, trying to understand this crazy world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T06:19:00.527164+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419"},"episode":{"title":"#172 - Graham Linehan - A Civilisation Built On Lies Cannot Survive","slug":"172-graham-linehan-a-civilisation-built-on-lies-cannot-survive","published_at":"2026-05-06T17:10:49+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419/172-graham-linehan-a-civilisation-built-on-lies-cannot-survive","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-peter-mccormack-show/episodes/172-graham-linehan-how-fear-activism-took-over-modern-cultur","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/69d4f193b76468caacc5068f/e/69fb6e417272023359af8328/media.mp3","summary":"Graham Linehan wrote Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd. Five BAFTAs. Then he said women's spaces should be for women, and the industry that built him decided he was a bigot. He lost his marriage, his career and twenty-five years of friendships. Once one of the most celebrated comedy writers of his generation, Graham became the first major artistic figure to be comprehensively cancelled for speaking out on sex-based rights - and has never gone quiet to claw his reputation back. He explains: •⁠ ⁠Why the people who built their careers alongside him refused to defend him •⁠ ⁠How a movement that didn't exist a decade ago captured medicine, sport, prisons and the BBC without a fight •⁠ ⁠Why women's sport, female-only spaces and child safeguarding became unsayable inside his industry almost overnight •⁠ ⁠How smartphones, algorithms and the collapse of physical community made a generation defenceless against ideological capture •⁠ ⁠Why activism replaced music, fashion and culture for a generation that was supposed to be having fun •⁠ ⁠What being arrested - and watching no-one call to ask if he was alright - actually teaches you about the people around you - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - The Cost Of Speaking Out 00:00:52 - They All Abandoned Me 00:10:54 - Where The Trans Movement Came From 00:24:55 - Sponsor Ad: Ledn 00:25:53 - Women's Sport, Self-ID, And Mixed-Sex Prisons 00:43:52 - Arrested - And No-One Called 00:48:26 - Phones, Algorithms, And The Anxious Generation 00:52:56 - Sponsor Ad: Monetary Metals 00:54:05 - The Father Whose Daughter Took Testosterone 01:04:08 - Everything Is Going To Shit 01:20:08 - October 7th And What Radicalised Him 01:34…","meta_description":"Graham Linehan wrote Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd. Five BAFTAs. Then he said women's spaces should be for women, and the industry that built h…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5994,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419/episodes/172-graham-linehan-a-civilisation-built-on-lies-cannot-survive/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419/172-graham-linehan-a-civilisation-built-on-lies-cannot-survive.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}