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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. A DM Podcast

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60:24

"The Next Level of Comedy" with Myq Kaplan

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps ·

2023/07/11

Myq is a New York comic who’s been on the Tonight Show, Conan, Letterman, James Corden, Seth Meyers, Comedy Central, Last Comic Standing, and America’s Got Talent. He also introduced Josh to ayahuasca. What happened next? To subscribe to Josh’s premium podcast feed, hit the Substack page at https://uncomfortableconversations.substack.com/subscribe

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55:12

"What Hitchens Would Make of the Left" with Matt Johnson

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2023/07/04

Despite his reputation as a defector to neoconservatism, Christopher Hitchens was more faithfully committed to liberal principles than many on the left today: Free expression, internationalism, individual rights and universalism as opposed to identity politics. That’s the argument Matt Johnson makes in his book, How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment. To subscribe to Josh’s premium podcast feed hit the Substack page

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21:29

Premium: Travel Hacking 101

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps ·

2023/07/01

Josh is a travel hacker and aviation nerd. He's one of those people who knows all the ways to get as many frequent flyer miles as possible, and cash them in for luxury, first-class experiences on the world's best airlines. He sits down with producer Stef to take him through how the whole thing works.

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80:05

"The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling" with Megan...

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps ·

2023/06/27

Megan Phelps-Roper was brought up in one of the most hated sects of American Christianity – the Westborough Baptist Church. Now, she sits down with the woman at the centre of an equally vicious firestorm, J.K. Rowling, in a new podcast from The Free Press. Josh and Megan reflect on the trans wars, religion, and the power of the mob.

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15:13

Premium: Ask Me Anything - Fitness, Ukraine, Gender...

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps ·

2023/06/26

Josh answers all your questions about A.I., fitness, Ukraine, gender ideology, and vacationing in Europe in winter.

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66:48

"RFK, Joe Rogan & Vaccines" with Michael Shermer

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps ·

2023/06/21

Presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr blew up the internet when he pushed anti-vaccine claims on Joe Rogan’s show. It’s déjà vu all over again for Josh, who had his own little vax run-in with Rogan last year. Should scientists and medical researchers do a better job of engaging with alternative media? America’s leading skeptic, Michael Shermer, thinks so. He and Josh hash it out.

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17:14

Premium: Josh's First Podcast - The Dawn of...

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps ·

2023/06/16

On a summer night in Brooklyn in 2015, in the week when Trump descended a staircase to declare his ridiculous stunt candidacy for the Republican nomination, Josh launched his first ever podcast. Jim Norton, Abbi Crutchfield and Kevin Allison lit up a dive bar, guzzling cocktails and bantering about the news. Be transported back to that event. To get your very own premium version of Josh’s podcast, hit the Substack page at https://uncomfortableconversations.substack.com/listen

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66:59

"Untangling Wokeness" with Sarah Haider

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps ·

2023/06/13

Sarah Haider is a Pakistani-American writer and a ferociously clear-headed thinker about culture, society, identity politics, religion, cancel culture, sex and gender. She’s been featured on the BBC and in The Economist and recognized as a “Freethought Heroine” for her work co-founding a non-profit that assists dissident Muslims. Her podcast, A Special Place In Hell, is co-hosted by the equally curious contrarian feminist Meghan Daum. Here, Sarah and Josh wrestle with the biggest questions of

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63:02

"The University Echo Chamber" with Katy Barnett

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps ·

2023/06/06

Permission to Think is a collaboration with the University of Technology, Sydney, where we debate the vigour, rigour and freedom of the academy. Today, the Melbourne University Law Professor Dr Katy Barnett sticks her neck out to argue against activist academics. To subscribe to Josh’s premium podcast feed. Hit the Substack page at https://uncomfortableconversations.substack.com/subscribe

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70:28

"Will A.I. Take Over?" with Stephen Marche

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps ·

2023/05/31

The world’s leading A.I. researchers have released an open letter warning of the “existential threat” the technology poses to human civilisation. Stephen Marche begs to differ. He’ll go down in history as the man who created the world’s first mainstream novel written by A.I. To do so, he spent months interacting with Chat GPT. Join Josh as he and Stephen argue about the fate of artificial intelligence… and of humankind.

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17:07

Premium: A First Date With Josh

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps ·

2023/05/26

Do you know Josh? You may be surprised to hear his surprise when the show’s producer, Stefan Posthuma, turns the tables and puts Josh on the spot with some First Date Questions of his own.

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99:08

Richard Dawkins: LIVE!

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps ·

2023/05/23

In front of a packed crowd at a sold-out Brisbane City Hall, Josh interviews the world's most influential living biologist, Richard Dawkins.

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76:45

"Why Conspiracy Theories Work" with Michael Shermer

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps ·

2023/05/16

Michael Shermer is a titan of the rationalist movement. He’s been on Oprah. He’s been on Donahue. He’s argued on TV with Deepak Chopra. He had a column in Scientific American for twenty-odd years. He’s the executive director of The Skeptics Society and the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine. His latest book is Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational.

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20:45

Premium: When Josh Met Susan Sarandon

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps ·

2023/05/12

Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award winning actor, philanthropist and progressive activist. She joined Josh on his old TV show to talk about her rise in Hollywood, gun laws, drug laws and being a “milf”.

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57:11

"The Life of a Dominatrix" with Eva Oh

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps ·

2023/05/09

Eva is a high-end dominatrix: A sex worker who flies around the world, servicing people’s most carnal desires. What makes them -- and her -- do what they do?1

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21:08

Premium: Ask Me Anything

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps ·

2023/05/05

What are your non-negotiable travel essentials? What catch phrase would you put on a billboard? What are your most left-wing and right-wing views? From deep and insightful to low-brow and fun - the audience asks Josh... anything.

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75:35

"Is Polarisation Good?" with Shadi Hamid

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps ·

2023/05/02

Shadi Hamid is a Muslim-American writer and professor whose latest book is “The Problem of Democracy”. In his new Substack, Wisdom of Crowds, he makes the case against consensus… and in favour of polarisation. Josh wants to figure out what the hell he means.

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33:53

Premium: Reflections On A Trip To West Africa

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps ·

2023/04/29

As Josh comes to the end of his trip to West Africa. He sits down with his travel companion Dan to share their summary of the adventure.

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79:22

"Fleeing Islam" with Yasmine Mohammed

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps ·

2023/04/25

After a dramatic youth that included a forced marriage to an Al-Qaeda operative, Yasmine became an activist for women’s rights in the Muslim world. Her charity, Free Hearts, Free Minds, helps ex-Muslims escape Muslim theocracies. Ironically, some of her toughest adversaries are western progressives, too timid to criticise Islam.

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93:48

"Booze, Meat & Ultramarathons" with Rich Roll

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps ·

2023/04/18

He’s a one-man wellness, publishing and podcasting empire. Rich Roll started getting fit in middle age and is now a world-renowned vegan ultra-endurance athlete.

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