Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

"The debate over free speech, hate speech, online harms, algorithms and social media is tangling us up in knots. Let’s get back to first principles, because our ability to survive the 21st century dep...

29 Elo 202448min

Andy is the producer The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling and previously of the New York Times' groundbreaking podcast The Daily.   During the riots and racial reckoning after the killing of George Floyd,...

26 Elo 20241h 26min

Can great TV & movies help us overcome political polarisation? Is being creative the same as being open-minded? Why are artists sometimes blinkered?   Emile Sherman is the Academy Award-winning produc...

22 Elo 202430min

What should you make of comparisons between the present day and the 1930s? Is the greatest risk that we're sliding towards Nazi-style fascism? Or that we're being drawn into a civil war where half the...

19 Elo 202453min

Two of the internet’s most intellectual contrarians sit down in a park with Josh. Magic ensues.   Jesse is among the world's most astute analysts of internet nonsense. He became a lightning rod when h...

15 Elo 20241h 14min

Why do some people have strong moral opinions but don't act on them, while other people effect real change? It's a question Josh wanted to ask Australia's most influential athlete-turned-politican. Da...

12 Elo 20241h 2min

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate for the presidency, has chosen her running mate… and it isn’t one of the swing-state governors her pollsters were recommending.   Josh is surpris...

7 Elo 202425min

DON'T MISS COLEMAN HUGHES AND JOSH LIVE IN MELBOURNE! GET TICKETS NOW AT https://bit.ly/Coleman-Szeps-Melb   Vaccine mandates. Wokeness in Hollywood. The female pay gap. Race protests. Diversity prog...

5 Elo 20241h 6min