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Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps
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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Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"War Correspondent" Misha Zelinsky
Misha is a former trade union boss who now reports from Ukraine for the Australian Financial Review. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"When Whitefellas Talk With Blackfellas" with Tyson Yunkaporta
Tyson is a researcher, writer, and traditional wood carver. He works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges and is the founder of the Indigenous…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Are Aussies Sexist?" with Sarah Wilson
What's wrong with Australian men? What expectations do single, middle-aged women face? What happened to the Left? Sarah Wilson is a global phenomenon -- an…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"What Is Gender?" with Courtney Act (aka Shane Jenek)
What is a man? What is a woman? What is transgenderism? What is drag? When are we acting out gender stereotypes, and when are we just being ourselves? Shane is…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"The Scott Morrison Fiasco" with Peter van Onselen
During the pandemic, did the Australian prime minister subvert democracy? One of Australia’s leading political commentators takes Josh deep into the bizarro…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Would 'The Satanic Verses' Be Published Today?" with Sami Shah
As Salman Rushdie recuperates, Josh debates Islamophobia, blasphemy and cancel culture with the Pakistani-Australian writer and comic Sami Shah. Hosted on…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Why We Keep Secrets" with Michael Slepian
Michael Slepian is an Author and Associate Professor of leadership and ethics at Columbia University. His new book is called The Secret Life Of Secrets - How…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"How To Be Happy" with Pandit The Monk
Pandit Dasa was a monk for more than 15 years. Now he's ditched the robes and helps people ease their way into more thoughtful, generous, fulfilling mental…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"What IS 'Diversity'?" with Antoinette Lattouf
Antoinette Lattouf is a journalist, author and diversity advocate. She co-founded Media Diversity Australia. Her new book is How To Lose Friends and Influence…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"America's Next Civil War" with Stephen Marche
Stephen Marche is a Canadian author and political commentator. He writes for The New York Times, The Atlantic and Esquire among others. His new book The Next…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Why The Doomsayers Are Wrong" with Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen is a celebrated American economist, blogger, author and podcaster. He currently sits as the Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"The Slate Political Gabfest" with David Plotz
David Plotz was the editor of Slate magazine during its glory days. In fact, he was Josh's first guest after the election of Donald Trump in 2016. The two…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"The War On The West" with Douglas Murray
Douglas is a gay English conservative, columnist, and the best-selling author of the new book The War on the West. He and Josh debate the collapse of faith in…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Woke Capitalism" with Prof. Carl Rhodes
From Nike supporting Colin Kaepernick to Qantas supporting same-sex marriage, corporations are going woke. Carl Rhodes is the Dean of the Business School at…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh SzepsDo We Need Gay Pride?
As part of Acast's audio pride parade, Josh shares his thoughts on growing up gay in Sydney, and what pride means to him. Hosted on Acast. See…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Are We Scientifically Illiterate?" with Prof. Luke O'Neill
How should we communicate science to the public? Celebrated scientist and popular Irish science communicator Professor Luke O’Neill joins Josh to plead for…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh SzepsPeter Singer: Live - The World's Greatest Moral Philosopher
Peter founded the animal liberation movement in the 1970s and is a driver behind the Effective Altruism movement around the world. This is a recording of "An…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Is Wokeness Made Up?" with Ana Marie Cox
An argument between Josh and veteran progressive muckraker Ana Marie Cox about whether wokeness is a real problem or a phantom of the right. Ana Marie founded…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh SzepsDr Drew - America's Favourite Doctor
Dr Drew is a physician, addiction medicine specialist and media personality. Since 1984 he has been beloved by American audiences for his candid communication…
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"Would The US Defend Australia?" with Cecile Shea
Cecile was a US diplomat in Japan, Pakistan, Thailand, Scotland and Israel, and a political advisor to the US Marine Corps in the Pacific. As the Ukraine War…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Who's Really Disabled?" with Kurt Fearnley
Kurt Fearnley, AO, is one of Australia's most successful paralympians. He began life crawling the dusty streets of Carcoar in central New South Wales and is…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh SzepsRoe v Wade: When Josh & Joe Rogan Debated Abortion
A leaked opinion from the US Supreme Court suggests that women's right to an abortion may be overturned in America. Who gets to decide hot-button cultural…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"The Language Of Woke Taboos" with Nick Enfield
How do taboo words develop, and why do we seem to be getting worse and worse at understanding each other? N. J. Enfield is a professor and the chair of…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Social Media Is Ruining Everything" with Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt is considered one of the world's most influential living psychologists. He's just penned a piece for The Atlantic titled Why The Past Ten Years…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"The Man Who Predicted Covid" with Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding
Eric Fiegl-Ding is a Harvard epidemiologist and health economist. In January of 2020 he became one of the first prominent scientists to raise the alarm about…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Will Europe Stand Firm?" with Nathalie Tocci
Nathalie Tocci is a political scientist, Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen, and international relations expert specialising in the EU's role in…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Are Universities Too Woke?" with Lee Jussim
Lee Jussim is an American social psychologist and distinguished professor leading the Social Perception Laboratory at Rutgers University. He joins Josh for…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh SzepsBonus: Michael Kimmage, Obama's Ukraine Chief
Michael Kimmage held the Russia/Ukraine portfolio in President Obama's State Department. He's an expert on international affairs, U.S.-Russian relations and…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Why Aren't We Happy?" with Scott Barry Kaufman
Scott is the founder of the Center for the Science of Human Potential and the host of the #1 psychology podcast in the world. His latest book is Transcend: The…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh SzepsToomas Hendrik Ilves, ex-President of Estonia
Toomas Hendrik Ilves was the president of Estonia from 2006 to 2016. He led the country through Russia's invasions of Georgia and Crimea. Previously, as…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"The Case For Heroin" with Dr. Carl Hart
Should all drugs be legal? Dr. Carl Hart - neuroscientist and Professor of psychology at Columbia University is an advocate for drug legalisation and…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Is The West To Blame For Ukraine?" with Eliot A. Cohen
Eliot A. Cohen is a military expert, foreign policy academic and former advisor to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"The Price Of Having Opinions" with Mike Pesca
Mike Pesca is an award winning journalist and host of the wildly successful daily podcast, The Gist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps“The Man Who Defied Trump” with Justin Amash
Justin Amash was the first Republican member of congress to call for Donald Trump’s impeachment. He was subsequently described by Trump as “one of the dumbest…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"The Problem With Covid Contrarianism" with Cathy Young
Cathy Young is a former Boston Globe columnist and contributing editor at Reason. She writes a weekly column on politics, social issues and culture at Arc…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"How I Lost Millions In Crypto" with Peter McCormack
Peter made millions in crypto, lost millions in crypto, and bought an English soccer club with crypto. He now hosts the world's biggest podcast about bitcoin…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Stop Being Such a F*%#ing Baby!" with David Frum
David Frum is the former George W Bush speechwriter who invented the phrase “an axis of evil”. He is now a senior editor at The Atlantic. Hosted on Acast. See…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh SzepsEverything You Need To Know About Joe Rogan
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…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Can We Have Sex Back?" with Alice Dreger
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…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh SzepsAsk Me Anything
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.
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Did We Go Too Far?" with Brigid Delaney
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…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Are We Training Victimhood?" with Dr. Dina McMillan
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…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Why Eat Animals?" with Jamie Woodhouse
Jamie Woodhouse is the founder of Sentientism, a movement for granting evidence, reason and compassion to all sentient beings. Hosted on Acast. See…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Are Men Toxic?" with Clementine Ford
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…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Wait But Why?" with Tim Urban
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…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Is Islam Sexist?" with Dr. Elham Manea
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…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Freedom For Girls" with Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Will Bitcoin Fail?" with Mark Carnegie
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…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Corporations Go Woke" with John Safran
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…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"What Is Creativity?" with Charlotte Wood
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…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Do Universities Punish Free Thinkers?" with Peter Boghossian
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…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Permission to Think" with Prof. Alan Davison
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…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh SzepsFlashback: Norm Macdonald
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…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"The Miracle of Science" with Tim Flannery
Professor Tim Flannery received Australia's highest honour, the Australian Of The Year award, for his work as an ecological historian, explorer and…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh SzepsTodd Sampson - Bodyhacking Mastermind
Todd Sampson is an adventurer, advertiser, and award-winning documentary-maker whose new TV show, Mirror Mirror, looks at body image dissatisfaction. Oh, he…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Has Australia Gone Too Far?" with Conor Friedersdorf
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…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"When Will Lockdowns End?" with Dr Stephen Duckett
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…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh SzepsBonus Rant: Vaccines & Lockdowns, Oh My!
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…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"In Defence Of Boys" with Christina Hoff Sommers
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…
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps"Are Psychedelics The Answer?" with James Mathison
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…