172 episodes
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps Josh Szeps
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4.5 • 691 Ratings
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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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"The Identity Trap" with Yascha Mounk
Yascha Mounk is one of the world’s most interesting thinkers about diversity, liberalism and democracy. His new book, The Identity Trap, is an ambitious account of the origins, consequences, and limitations of “wokeness”. How did a relatively marginal set of ideas – postmodernism, postcolonialism, critical race theory – come to rule the world?
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“Campus Craziness” with Amna Khalid
Has Louis CK reeeeeeally been “cancelled” if he still has a face? I mean, he wasn’t beheaded, ergo, “cancel culture” doesn’t exist. Amna Khalid is an equal-opportunity defender of free speech—a professor who slams wokesters… at the same time as legally opposing Florida’s war on woke universities. Anna’s blog and podcast, “Banished”, are about the history of censorship. This episode is part of Permission to Think, a collaboration with the University of Technology, Sydney, where Josh is a visiting fellow. A fabulous chat about the fate of education and the limits of free speech.
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“Is Israel Immoral?” with Antony Loewenstein
Is Zionism a noble goal, or a form of colonial apartheid? Is a two-state solution possible? Desirable? Antony Loewenstein is a fierce critic of Israel and of the whole Zionist project. His new book is The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World. He and Josh debate the rights and wrongs of a Jewish homeland.
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Premium: My Thoughts on Barbie
Is Barbie the triumphant feminist critique of modern society it claims to be? The dust has settled on the mega-hit, so Josh finds some time to weigh-in.
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Premium: Australia vs America with Ed Kavalee
Ed Kavalee is a legend of Aussie radio, and a bloody funny bloke. Josh and Ed sit down to compare the best and worst of Australia vs America.
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“Your Wild A.I. Future” with Toby Walsh
It’s being compared to the discovery of fire or of electricity. Either way, artificial intelligence will revolutionise human civilisation. How?
Toby Walsh runs the AI Lab at UNSW and is a world-leading expert in AI. His most recent book is “Machines Behaving Badly: The Morality of AI.” Join him and Josh all the way down the rabbit hole.
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Customer Reviews
Thoughtful and witty
After listening to one episode of Josh I knew his podcast would be worth supporting and it hasn’t dissapointed. I like that he’s willing to invite people on who’ve called him a racist to explain their reason for calling him that. If you listen to tbd episode with his accuser you’ll quickly realize she has no basis for making that accusation and the she believes that white people can’t have let alone express their opinions on anything or anyone that isn’t white. She’s the racist, and Josh allows her the opportunity to prove just that.
One of the Best Interviewers
Josh is one of the smartest (and funniest) interviewers out there. Leans heterodox, but often pushes back on the inanity of the current culture war moment. Also, the accent is pretty great.
Balanced and sane
The thing trans people need to keep in mind is us “normies” make up 80% of the population. And the vast majority of us support the right for adults to marry any adult they wish. To own anything they want. Do any job they wish. Anything. But the violence with which you are trying to shove your extreme version of trans activism into everyone’s face and space will and is alienating us. And potentially harming and reversing the rights that have been won.
Please remember to treat people with the common courtesy and compassion you demand for yourself.