How the Public Shaming Machine was Built with Jon Ronson

How the Public Shaming Machine was Built with Jon Ronson

What should we make of the public shaming machine we have built? Following the death of the Cambridge academic Jason Arday, Josh checks in with the godfather of public shaming, Jon Ronson. His 2015 book So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed was the first blockbuster analysis of what we now call “cancel culture”, and even inspired an episode of Black Mirror. Ronson was Louis Theroux before Louis Theroux. His BBC podcast, Things Fell Apart, is about the culture wars. He’s a contributor to This American Life, the New York Times Magazine, GQ and The Guardian UK. His TED Talk, Strange answers to the Psychopath Test, has nearly 60 million views. Jon joins Josh to to revisit his ideas about cancel culture; how the “shaming machine” has been weaponised; the new identitarian “woke right”... and to discuss the best sightseeing spots in Sydney. His new book is The Castle, and he’ll be touring the UK & Australia later this year.

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Comedy Kingmaker on Speaking Fearlessly & Living Well

Comedy Kingmaker on Speaking Fearlessly & Living Well

Noam Dworman is the owner of comedy’s most revered venue, the Comedy Cellar, sometimes referred to as the "Harvard” of comedy clubs. He transformed it from a single 1980s room in Greenwich Village int...

29 Okt 25min

What Israeli Election?

What Israeli Election?

As we hold our breath to find out whether Israelis will finally spurn Netanyahuism, Yael Bar Tur joins Josh to definitely NOT discuss the Israeli election. Yael majored in counterterrorism in Israel a...

27 Okt 58min

Stephen Fry on Love, Trump and Learning Not to Care

Stephen Fry on Love, Trump and Learning Not to Care

This episode is part of The Best Of series and was originally posted in 2024. Few Britons are as iconic as Stephen Fry. On TV, he’s an Emmy-winning comedy legend immortalised in shows like A Bit of F...

26 Okt 1h 14min

Midterms! France! Josh is in DC! Yayyy

Midterms! France! Josh is in DC! Yayyy

Is the exhausted majority stuck choosing between two extremes that can’t be satisfied, and what happens when the far left and far right go head to head? Josh chats with comedy writer and author of I M...

22 Okt 24min

BREAKING: A Note on Political Violence

BREAKING: A Note on Political Violence

Is it more ethical to prosecute your moral beliefs, or to understand people who disagree? Who, exactly, is fomenting polarisation? Who is capable, potentially, of political violence? Is it, perhaps, a...

21 Okt 25min

"Why are you here?" with Tim Urban

"Why are you here?" with Tim Urban

This episode is part of The Best Of series and was originally posted in 2021. Tim Urban’s first appearance on this show remains one of my all-time favourites. Why are you here? Are we alone in the uni...

19 Okt 1h 52min

How my upbringing shaped my world view with Josh Szeps

How my upbringing shaped my world view with Josh Szeps

This episode is from the You’re A Good Kid podcast, featuring your humble host, Josh Szeps. This is a candid look into the life and mind of a boy who grew up in Sydney's inner suburbs and how love, fa...

15 Okt 1h 49min

How A.I. is "Demolishing" Mathematics

How A.I. is "Demolishing" Mathematics

A.I. is unleashing a “judgment day” on everything from algebra and geometry to probability and logic. What happens to human knowledge when it's dropped in our laps instead of being understood? It was ...

12 Okt 1h 5min

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