{"id":1675,"date":"2015-12-08T15:52:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T15:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=1675"},"modified":"2015-12-08T15:52:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T15:52:03","slug":"bantercast-72-neil-strauss","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/podcast\/bantercast-72-neil-strauss\/","title":{"rendered":"Bantercast 72: Neil Strauss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">It\u2019s time to check back in again with Neil Strauss. A decade on from his bestselling book <em>The Game<\/em>, Strauss has returned to the writing-about-the-other-sex business, but much has changed in the meantime. He joined us at MVP in Dublin to talk about his new book <em>The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships<\/em> \u2013 or, if you like, what happens when a dude who\u2019s all for freedom, sex and opportunity meets a woman he\u2019s prepared to have a long-term life with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time to check back in again with Neil Strauss. A decade on from his bestselling book The Game, Strauss has returned to the writing-about-the-other-sex business, but much has changed in the meantime. 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