Like I'm A Six-Year-Old

This week I'm bringing you a taste of my debut book I, Millennial: One Snowflake's Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else. You'll hear the full prologue from the audiobook that sets the whole thing up and talks about me doing drugs. The book comes out next week - you can pre-order it here. I'm having book launches in MELBOURNE, SYDNEY and BRISBANE - check out the details and book tickets here. Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Come see the 2022 Yearly Wrap show I’m hosting at Comedy Republic in Melbourne in December I’m doing a Work in Progress show at the very cool Brunswick Picture House in January Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger  

Ben Schneiders is an award-winning investigate journalist at The Age and author of the new book, Hard Labour: Wage Theft in the Age of Inequality.  Over the past eight years, Ben's reporting has exposed the scourge of wage theft and worker exploitation in Australian hospitality, fast food, retail and agriculture. In Hard Labour, Ben summarises just how widespread and serious this problem is in Australian capitalism today, and lays out exactly what's been happening over the past 50 years that's seen workers' power dwindle so much. This was a great conversation, in which Ben and I discussed the enraging specifics of the wage theft cases, why the SDA sucks, how much we should blame the ALP for all this and where we might find some hope in the future for Australian workers. Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron My debut book I, Millennial: One Snowflake’s Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else is out November 30th – pre-order it now I'm launching the book with events in Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane Come see the 2022 Yearly Wrap show I'm hosting at Comedy Republic in Melbourne in December I'm doing a Work in Progress show at the very cool Brunswick Picture House in January Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger @BenSchneiders Hard Labour: Wage Theft in the Age of Inequality is published through Scribe ARTICLE: Shopped Out: SDA & Fair Work Commissions by Ben & Royce Millar Cause of the Week: Join your union (australianunions.org.au) IF YOU WORK IN RETAIL PLEASE JOIN RAFFWU NOT THE SDA (raffwu.org.au)

I'm back! Again! Sorry about the big gap between episodes. I am bad.  Leo Puglisi is a digital journalist who just so happens to be 14 years old. He founded what would eventually become the online news service 6 News Australia when he was just 11, and he's since grown it into a respectable independent media outlet that does pretty great journalism, and regularly puts mainstream "adult" media outlets to shame. During the 2022 election, Leo even managed to secure and conduct insightful interviews with Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese.  Here Leo talks to me about starting a media outlet so young, what he sees as the mission behind 6 News, the kind of criticism and trolling he's had to face online, his dedicated to fact checking and what he thinks makes for a great political interview.  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron My debut book I, Millennial: One Snowflake's Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else is out November 30th - pre-order it now Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger @Leo_Puglisi6 @6NewsAU 6newsau.com patreon.com/6newsau Cause of the Week: Sponsor me in the ASRC's KMs of Compassion here

Jim Casey is a firefighting unionist, socialist and co-founder of the Australian Firefighters Climate Alliance. He is an anti-capitalist GREENS EXTREMIST who has twice run as a candidate against Anthony Albanese in the seat of Grayndler.  As he gears up to run for Greens preselection to be an upper-house candidate in the 2023 NSW state election, Jim took some time to talk to me about his time leading the Fire Brigade Employees Union,  the state of the Australian labour movement, his theories on why real political power lies outside of parliament and the controversies he ran into when taking on "Albo".  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger My special "ENOUGH" is out on Paramount+ this Friday @JimCaseyGreens jimcasey.online ARTICLE: We've Never Seen Conditions As Bad As This by Jim Casey   ARTICLE: Anthony Albanese: Labor heavyweight's Greens rival Jim Casey defends "Trotskyist" speech Cause of the Week: Rachael Jacobs, Greens Candidate for Grayndler (support her here)

Georgia Steele is a former corporate litigator and now independent candidate running in the NSW seat of Hughes at the upcoming federal election. (The seat's currently held by former Liberal MP, now United Australia Party TRUTH-TELLER Craig Kelly.)  In this conversation I discuss with Georgia Kelly's bizarro mind and political career, why she thinks the people of Hughes deserves better, the issues that she's campaigning on, her rejection of political ideology and her thoughts on why the two-party system is failing.  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger I’m coming to The Clubhouse in Hobart March 17th I'm making a cool TV show in lutruwita with Kates McLennan & McCartney @Steele4Hughes georgiasteele.com.au ARTICLE: Ex-lawyer Georgia Steele to run as independent in Craig Kelly's seat during federal election LISTEN: Our Serious Danger episode on the "teal wave" of independents running in the upcoming election Cause of the Week: The Family Co (thefamilyco.org.au)   

David Shoebridge MLC has served in the NSW upper house since 2010, and has been the Greens spokesperson for workers' rights, energy and Aboriginal justice.  In 2022 he's running to pick up another NSW Senate seat for the Greens (and it's actually possible!).  In this conversation I ask David about NSW politics' love of corruption, how he developed his radical politics, what the Greens could achieve in balance of power and whether Greens MPs should have anything to do with investment properties.   Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger I'm coming to The Clubhouse in Hobart March 17th @ShoebridgeMLC David's Facebook page David's instagram The Greens' Balance of Power pitch  Cause of the Week: David Shoebridge's Senate campaign (nsw.greens.org.au) 

This week I'm bringing you the audio of a panel I appeared on, discussing the reason behind and ideas around the recent boycott of the 2022 Sydney Festival.  I joined dozens of other artists in withdrawing from the Festival to protest its acceptance of $20k in sponsorship money from the Israeli embassy; a sponsorship which guaranteed Israel the honour of being a "star partner" of the festival.  Here I'm in conversation with academic Dr. Jumana Bayeh, the Executive Director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy Salem Barahmeh and my fellow boycotters Dr. Mohammed Ahmad (founding director of Western Sydney literacy outfit Sweatshop) and Maissa Alameddine (the Artist Director of the Ensemble Dandana, which is part of the Arab Theatre Studio).   Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger @PalestineRising "Artists Against Apartheid Sydney Festival" petition  ARTICLE: Sydney Festival acts boycott over Israel by Farid Farid ARTICLE: Why I'm helping to organise a boycott of this year's Sydney Festival by Jennine Khalik  ARTICLE:Boycotts are an essential and necessary part of public life by Osman Faruqi ARTICLE: From Safsaf to Sydney: Palestinian resistance and the festival boycott by Jeanine Hourani, Rihab Charida & Matt Chun Cause of the Week: Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Australia bdsaustralia.net.au 

Writer and journalist Johann Hari has returned to the show to discuss why our brains have melted. His new book is called Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention and it is a fascinating, depressing and insightful look at the "attention crisis" we're facing as a society. Johann tells me about just how bad this situation is, how much social media and technology is responsible for it, its social and political implications and what the fuck we can do about it - as individuals, and as a collective.  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger @johannhari101 johannhari.com Johann's first appearance on the show was back at Ep #73 You can order Johann's latest book Stolen Focus here: stolenfocusbook.com Read an extract of the book here

Van Badham is a playwright, author and activist, and she's returned to the show to discuss her latest book, QAnon: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults. Here Van lays out precisely what the QAnon conspiracy theory actually is, how it came into existence and how much it has shaped - and continues to shape - politics in the US and here in Australia. We discuss the most bonkers beliefs involved in all this and what the theory's success tells us about the internet and the failures of the modern Left, and we disagree about what happened to JFK. Merry Xmas everyone! See you in 2022, when everything will be fixed forever xx  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Catch me (and a crazy good line-up) performing at Just For Laughs Australia at the Malthouse Theatre in January Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger @vanbadham Van's book QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults Van's podcast is The Week on Wednesday ARTICLE: If your friends or family have fallen for an internet conspiracy cult, here's what you should do by Van Badham AN EDITED EXTRACT OF VAN'S BOOK: QAnon: how the far-right cult took Australians down a 'rabbit hole' of extremism Cause of the Week: Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (asrc.org.au)

James Button is a freelance journalist, ALP member and former speechwriter for the former prime minister Kevin Rudd. He recently wrote a three-part, in-depth series for Nine/Fairfax on "cancel culture": what it is, why it exists and what it means for the Australian Left.  In this conversation James and I go deep into his argument and the three pieces and try to clarify how this social phenomenon manifests itself when it comes to issues of race, gender, art and politics.  On some fronts we agree, on others I try to push back and challenge some of the common arguments that are wheeled out on this stuff.  It's long, but (I hope) really worthwhile. TL:DR - class politics is GOOD and we need MORE OF IT PLEASE.  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger @JamesButton49 (though he rarely tweets!) Read James' three-part series on cancel culture:  "They cancelled me as a human": what nearly killed Logie winner Hugh Sheridan Gender, sex and power: the debate dividing universities Is identity politics killing the left? ARTICLE: The Failure of Occupy is Almost Complete by Freddie deBoer ARTICLE: Woke politics and power by Waleed Aly  Cause(s) of the Week: Savannah Pride (savannahpride.com.au); Marrin Weejali Aboriginal Corporation (marrinweejali.org.au)