The world has never been more connected. Yet never more divided. We yell at each other from inside our echo chambers. But change doesn’t happen inside an echo chamber. It’s time to get out, to stretch our legs, to step on some land mines. It's time to have an uncomfortable conversation with Josh Szeps.
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It's been a hell of a week. Josh is back from America and jumps in solo to discuss the post-Rogan Twitter fallout, Myocarditis fact checking, what public health means, so-called "concentration camps" and some of the more stupid takes on the whole thing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What’s sex? What's sexuality? What’s gender? Are trans women “real” women? Are woke activists expanding womanhood, or deranging it? Alice Dreger is one of the world’s foremost academic experts on sex, sexuality and intersexuality. Her recent Quillette article is “Can We Have Sex Back?” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
For the last show of 2021, its about time we heard from you. Your questions, for Josh, answered. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Did the pandemic turn Australia into a nation of paranoid, boot-licking dobbers? Brigid Delaney is a Guardian Australia columnist whose upcoming book is about Stoicism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The latest in of Permission To Think, a collaboration with the University of Technology Sydney - Josh speaks with social psychologist and the host of the podcast Unmasking The Abuser, Dr. Dina Mcmillan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jamie Woodhouse is the founder of Sentientism, a movement for granting evidence, reason and compassion to all sentient beings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Clementine Ford is Australia's most controversial, firebrand feminist. Her latest book is "How We Love". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Why are you here? Are we alone in the universe? Will we extinguish ourselves? Why do you procrastinate? And what does social media reveal about your chimpanzee mind? Tens of millions of viewers watch philosopher-blogger king Tim Urban wrestle with these questions in TED Talks and on his comic blog, 'Wait But Why'. Spark up a reefer and join Josh on a cosmic journey into a genius mind. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
When a Muslim girl wears a burqini to the beach, is that religious freedom, or sexist oppression? Dr. Elham Manea is a Yemeni professor who lives in Switzerland. In this second instalment of 'Permission to Think', our collaboration with the University of Technology, Sydney, she makes a passionate case for the universality of human rights. This is one helluva chat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of the world's most prominent activists for the rights of women in Islam. She and Josh discuss coronavirus, immigration, fatherless families, Justin Trudeau... and Dave Chappelle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
You mightn't expect the founder of a billion-dollar asset management company to be a crypto nerd. But Mark Carnegie is one of the few big-time venture capitalists who actually understands Bitcoin. Most of what you hear about cryptocurrencies comes from evangelists who've drunk the kool-aid, or traditionalists who Just Don't Get It. Mark is neither. Enjoy this deep discussion of how -- and whether -- cryptocurrencies will revolutionise the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy ...
Before Ali G and Borat, John Safran blew up Australian TV as a troublemaker extraordinaire. His new book "Puff Piece: How Philip Morris set vaping alight (and burned down the English language)" is a gonzo glimpse into the bizarre future that tobacco companies are trying to build. He and Josh reflect on performative social justice, the gullibility of the modern left in falling for corporate moralising, and why the Mississippi lynchings were originally pitched as "wok...
One of Australia's greatest novelists opens up about the pandemic, Twitter, and finding your voice amid the cacophony. Her new book is The Luminous Solution: Creativity, Resilience and the Inner Life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Peter recently quit his job as an assistant professor of philosophy, saying that universities have sacrificed ideas for ideology. The more he spoke out against illiberalism on campus, the more retaliation he faced. This is the first episode of the "Permission to Think" series, a collaboration between Uncomfortable Conversations and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney, where Josh is a Professional Fellow, is launching a series of conversations with world-class intellects. The mastermind behind the series, the Faculty’s Dean, explains why. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Comedy legend Norm Macdonald died today. Revisit his deranged 2015 interview with Josh on HuffPost Live. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Professor Tim Flannery received Australia's highest honour, the Australian Of The Year award, for his work as an ecological historian, explorer and environmentalist. He and Josh discuss tree kangaroos, climate change, anti-vaxxers, and giant dinosaur sharks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Todd Sampson is an adventurer, advertiser, and award-winning documentary-maker whose new TV show, Mirror Mirror, looks at body image dissatisfaction. Oh, he also climbed Mt Everest before it was cool. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Americans have been going craycray over Austraystray. From Fox News to social media, images of Australia's lockdowns are being presented as a descent into totalitarianism. The concern-mongering came to a head with an article in The Atlantic by Conor Friedersdorf entitled "Australia Traded Away Too Much Liberty: How long can a democracy maintain emergency restrictions and still call itself a free country?" Josh responded with a 25-tweet rebuttal which went viral. So the two men tra...
As the Health Department Secretary, Dr Stephen Duckett was Australia's most senior health official. He now runs the health program at the think tank that helped shape Australia's hardline response to COVID-19. Josh is fed up with lockdowns, and wrestles with Stephen about the path back to life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Record vaccinations in NSW, the National Cabinet plan to re-open, vaccine hesitancy, Covid is here for good. What a time for some more bonus Covid musings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Christina Hoff Sommers is a feminist philosopher. She and Josh discuss gender, boys, cancel culture, and whether she is secretly her own Nixon-loving uncle in disguise. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
James Mathison Psychedelic TV Host The former host of Australian Idol makes a case for magic mushrooms in public life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oliver Burkeman describes himself is "unreasonably obsessed with the question of how people organise their days". He returns to the show for a chat about time, and how to use it. His new book is Four Thousand Weeks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
"Stuart Diver is the sole survivor of Australia's deadliest landslide. He was buried alive by a mountain of frozen sludge for 65 hours. His new podcast is The Elements." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Kat is an author and culture critic. She and Josh discuss feminism, sexual assault, Woody Allen, and whether it's okay for a fantasy writer to discriminate against wolf-men. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
With violent freedom protests, bickering states, a bungled vaccine rollout and over half of Australia's population in lockdown, its time to talk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Malcolm Turnbull was the 29th Prime Minister of Australia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mark Humphries the preeminent political satirist on Australian TV. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In the culture wars, Jesse Singal is either the world's supervillain or its superhero, depending on your point of view. His original Atlantic article is at https://bit.ly/3zZ9Msq and Jonathan Kay's article about the smear campaign against him is at https://bit.ly/3dgcShO . Jesse's new book, in real-world printed form, is "The Quick Fix". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
