Picture this: It’s a balmy June evening in 2020, and across the pond, two sharp-witted British comedians, Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster, are wrapping up a no-holds-barred interview with the journalist Peter Hitchens. The topic was the unfolding “virus farce,” as Hitchens called it, with its endless lockdowns, mask mandates, and a societal freakout that felt more like a bad dystopian script than reality. Hitchens, ever the unflinching skeptic, didn’t mince words: The economic carnage, the shredded liberties, and the blind faith in “authorities” — it was all wildly disproportionate to the actual threat. Kisin and Foster, hosts of the podcast Triggernometry, were providing a platform that was a rare oasis for unfiltered debate in a desert of compliance.