An Audience with Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson’s second season of unexpected human stories from the culture wars focused on the divisions that erupted in the wake of the Covid lockdown. It was a number 1 hit podcast and received five st...
17 Jul 202427min
8. Mikki’s Hero’s Journey
How a former actor and model, burned by Hollywood and devastated by the death of his brother, has become an important culture warrior, fueling the flames of every story we tell this season.Written and...
9 Jan 202437min
7. You’ll Own Nothing and You’ll Be Happy
How a young man with a novel idea for affordable accommodation, and an Oxford man with a plan for bus lanes, and a Danish woman writing a thought experiment about car rentals, unwittingly became hate...
9 Jan 202433min
6. A Hierarchy of Trauma
How a bestselling book about trauma - lockdown’s number one bestseller - helped the culture war over free speech burst out of colleges and into the workplace. A shift some people pejoratively call the...
9 Jan 202433min
5. Things Weren’t Going Back to Normal
How a schism between a mother and her teenage daughter during lockdown contributed to Governor Ron DeSantis enacting new and far-reaching laws in Florida.Written and presented by Jon Ronson Produced b...
9 Jan 202436min
4. Spicy Brando
How a disenfranchised young man, maddened by the strict lockdown laws in Michigan, joined a club of like-minded men and suddenly found himself under arrest for the most unlikely and horrific crime. Wr...
9 Jan 202434min
3. Tonight’s the Night, Comrades
How an American media polarized over Antifa led to an innocent family on a Twilight-themed lockdown-escaping camping trip getting barricaded in the woods by armed, hostile townspeople.Written and pres...
9 Jan 202431min
