Why We Crave Stories
Why do audiences keep returning to stories?
Dec 28, 2025 · 4 min · 5 segments
What was Louis Theroux’s bravest moment — and what does it reveal about the state of modern journalism? In this gripping Heretics Clips episode, comedian Francis Foster joins Andrew Gold to debate the…
Francis FosterGuest
Andrew GoldHost
No, but actually that's a very intelligent response because what he's actually saying is it doesn't matter.

And it made me, it actually changed me as a journalist because I for a while was making those kinds of documentaries and it changed me.

If someone had said to me and I was scared and they said, are you secretly a Muslim? Something like that.

And I saw that and I thought, oh, maybe I could be brave enough, maybe, to just go, I'm not going to say.

I mean, that's a very brave thing to do because the easier thing to do would be to tell the truth and say, no, I'm not, but it doesn't matter or whatever else.

No, but actually that's a very intelligent response because what he's actually saying is it doesn't matter.

And it made me, it actually changed me as a journalist because I for a while was making those kinds of documentaries and it changed me.

If someone had said to me and I was scared and they said, are you secretly a Muslim? Something like that.

And I saw that and I thought, oh, maybe I could be brave enough, maybe, to just go, I'm not going to say.

I mean, that's a very brave thing to do because the easier thing to do would be to tell the truth and say, no, I'm not, but it doesn't matter or whatever else.
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