John Safran
speaker
891 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 16 Jun
John Safran’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, you know, like, before I knew I wanted to be, like, what I wanted to do.
Like, when I was in, like, high school, I'd be walking past, like, the Freemasons and going, what's going on in there?
Or the Church of Scientology, oh, my God, I'm going in to get a free personality test.
I can't believe this.
This is so exciting.
And stuff like that.
So that was me before.
And...
Yeah, I find that really interesting.
So that's true.
And so there's a reason why my work is so heavily leans into things like that.
But then there's sort of – I guess there's just different things going on at the same time.
And then another thing is I also like to do religion because it's like really undercovered and underserviced in Australia.
And so I'm like –
Well, a hole in the marketplace.
Not in a cynical way, but probably is like... Like, for instance, I was hanging out with all these Klansmen way before it got popular.
And then...
Then there was a point where like everyone suddenly became obsessed with the things I was obsessed with and it was like you look at The Guardian and the top five stories are all, you know, someone hanging out with or talking about, you know, the rise of white nationalism in Australia.
I was like, oh.
And part of the reason I did Puff Piece, which was my book looking at Philip Morris, the cigarette company, getting involved in electronic cigarettes, part of that really was a response to the rest of the world has become obsessed with all these things and, you know,
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