I suspect that Josh’s recent episodes in which he fails to applaud the righteous freedom fighters of Hamas, says Israel should exist, and converses with Mossad employee Eli Lake did not help his case in the eyes of the ABC.
As soon as I heard he had quit I rememberes his recent fifth column appearance.
Josh is a big loss for the ABC, and it shows in the praise he's received from people who are usually hostile to public broadcaster. But he's much better suited to podcasts anyway.
For one brief moment I misread it as Szeps joining the "independent pedosphere" and thought "hmm, no doubt losing a job sucks but how's that gonna help?"
Javier Millei, anarco-capitalist / libertarian, just won the presidential runoff in Argentina. A most interesting experiment starting on December 10th. Pay attention compañeros.
One easy way to clip audio on an iPhone is to do a Screen Recording. Just make sure you put on Do Not Disturb first. To share files of any type, I love Dropbox. Once you have the Dropbox app installed, long-press any file >> Share >> Dropbox. Then, once it is in Dropbox, it is simple to copy a shareable link.
Sail On is such a fuckin jam. From the Mick and Keith style 2 part harmony in the verses, to the kind of weird syncopated post chorus section......and then when you thought it couldn’t get any better....here comes a sing along coda with strings, horns and a fuckin woodblock!
They switch it up at mine. I heard Duran Duran’s ‘Wild Boys’ a couple of months ago. The song (a total jam) was familiar but I couldn’t remember who it was and had to Shazam it. Simon Le Bon has some serious pipes! And then of course there are the roto toms.
Since it seems like this story won't get read on the air at this point, I'll share it here:
In light of the recent praise for Jane Goodall, I would like to share a story that, in my mind, makes here even greater.
My wife has a PhD in animal behavior that she got studying chimpanzees. Part of her field work was done in one of the Jane Goodall sanctuaries in the Congo (the safer one, not the "Democratic" one). While she was there, Dr. Goodall came for a week to check in on the sanctuary. This was about a decade ago, so she was about 80 at the time.
Well, it turns out that Dr. Goodall is a Scotch drinker, specifically: Johnnie Walker Red, and she never travels without a bottle with her. So the first evening, she walks into the lounge area where my wife and the other researchers are hanging out and asks "Who will have a whiskey with me?"
Well of the 4 people in the room, one was a recovering alcoholic and one was an underage undergrad who couldn't recognize the appropriate time to break rules and I can't remember why the 3rd turned it down, so Dr Goodall turns to my wife and, no longer asking, says that she will have a drink with Jane. My wife, not being a dummy, of course agrees (again: not that she had much choice), and she then proceeded to share an evening Scotch with Jane every night that week.
My wife is a whiskey drinker to this day (although she eventually settled mostly on bourbon), and it's all thanks to Dr. Jane Goodall.
Some good recent listening for those who are critical of the actions of Israel. I’ve been particularly impressed by Glenn Loury’s heterodox (among his peers) inclination regarding a ceasefire. I like the Fifth Column and I hope there’s rooms for listeners who feel that their analysis of recent events is misguided. I’m going to keep listening as I can’t pretend that this issue has been of primary concern to me before October 7th. But after revisiting my longstanding but dulled criticism of Israel with an open mind toward rethinking my views, I’ve come to the conclusion that the state continues to make mistakes on a colossal scale and that their actions as of late are absolutely not in their best interest.
I suspect that Josh’s recent episodes in which he fails to applaud the righteous freedom fighters of Hamas, says Israel should exist, and converses with Mossad employee Eli Lake did not help his case in the eyes of the ABC.
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As soon as I heard he had quit I rememberes his recent fifth column appearance.
Josh is a big loss for the ABC, and it shows in the praise he's received from people who are usually hostile to public broadcaster. But he's much better suited to podcasts anyway.
What the fuck has Josh got against kale? FAG!
He knows it's the Woke version of NASCAR and Coors Lite.
Consider me a paid subscriber ya Cunt!
For one brief moment I misread it as Szeps joining the "independent pedosphere" and thought "hmm, no doubt losing a job sucks but how's that gonna help?"
Javier Millei, anarco-capitalist / libertarian, just won the presidential runoff in Argentina. A most interesting experiment starting on December 10th. Pay attention compañeros.
"Committed to getting problematic people out of the organization".
The epitaph for the planet Earth.
Not sure who in the Midwest needs to know this but favorite Welch name-dropped X/Twitter feed source of joy Ricky Cobb of https://x.com/Super70sSports?s=20 Super70s Sports has a live Comedy show Weds Dec 13th at Fitzgeralds in Berwyn. I persuaded my wife to join and encourage any Chicago-based FifDom seditionsists with GenX insensibilities to join us. https://www.fitzgeraldsnightclub.com/event2/13718818/the-super-70s-sports-comedy-road-show-w-ricky-cobb-jash-karp/
Yacht rock. Definitely yacht rock.
Where's that Audio of the "Uncomfortable Conversations" episode. It was floating about. Since he quit, I say release the tapes.
Anyone? Anyone?
I didn’t let it play through to the end, so still have it in my downloads. No idea if anyone else can access, but it still plays for me.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uncomfortable-conversations-with-josh-szeps/id1002920114?i=1000626114023
You might have to go old school and just set up a tape recorder next to your phone while it plays. Bootleg forbidden episode.
My limited knowledge of iPhones is that it is a pain to actually get and share the audio file. I am sure there are ways, but nothing I can help with.
One easy way to clip audio on an iPhone is to do a Screen Recording. Just make sure you put on Do Not Disturb first. To share files of any type, I love Dropbox. Once you have the Dropbox app installed, long-press any file >> Share >> Dropbox. Then, once it is in Dropbox, it is simple to copy a shareable link.
https://youtu.be/tmt53GrnEsM?si=PMVsULuQkmyeK4_m
It's like when I watched the movie Crash and felt ashamed as I was dying from laughter.
Literally, not figuratively crying from laughter. Thank you.
Going to have to cancel my Netflix subscription to free up some money for all the podcasts I've been subscribing to recently. Good luck, Szeps!
Sail On is such a fuckin jam. From the Mick and Keith style 2 part harmony in the verses, to the kind of weird syncopated post chorus section......and then when you thought it couldn’t get any better....here comes a sing along coda with strings, horns and a fuckin woodblock!
Don't sleep on the pre-late-arriving-chorus key-change!
Totally eargasmic
‘Sail On’ is playing in the grocery store right now. Swear to god. Here comes the woodblock
Now they’re playing Call Me the Breeze. It’s a rager at Hannaford’s tonight
Man, my local Hannafords soundtrack is much less exciting, have to go to P Chops for good grocery tunes.
They switch it up at mine. I heard Duran Duran’s ‘Wild Boys’ a couple of months ago. The song (a total jam) was familiar but I couldn’t remember who it was and had to Shazam it. Simon Le Bon has some serious pipes! And then of course there are the roto toms.
Oh, I was just listening to “The Chauffeur” earlier--such an amazing track. https://open.spotify.com/track/4kZOi9K2i06Syi2DiSfEqT?si=Jk6gsuLyQRyLPjGhlbH6Lw
I think the best I’ve heard at Hannafords was “Invisible Touch” but that was definitely an outlier.
Since it seems like this story won't get read on the air at this point, I'll share it here:
In light of the recent praise for Jane Goodall, I would like to share a story that, in my mind, makes here even greater.
My wife has a PhD in animal behavior that she got studying chimpanzees. Part of her field work was done in one of the Jane Goodall sanctuaries in the Congo (the safer one, not the "Democratic" one). While she was there, Dr. Goodall came for a week to check in on the sanctuary. This was about a decade ago, so she was about 80 at the time.
Well, it turns out that Dr. Goodall is a Scotch drinker, specifically: Johnnie Walker Red, and she never travels without a bottle with her. So the first evening, she walks into the lounge area where my wife and the other researchers are hanging out and asks "Who will have a whiskey with me?"
Well of the 4 people in the room, one was a recovering alcoholic and one was an underage undergrad who couldn't recognize the appropriate time to break rules and I can't remember why the 3rd turned it down, so Dr Goodall turns to my wife and, no longer asking, says that she will have a drink with Jane. My wife, not being a dummy, of course agrees (again: not that she had much choice), and she then proceeded to share an evening Scotch with Jane every night that week.
My wife is a whiskey drinker to this day (although she eventually settled mostly on bourbon), and it's all thanks to Dr. Jane Goodall.
Some good recent listening for those who are critical of the actions of Israel. I’ve been particularly impressed by Glenn Loury’s heterodox (among his peers) inclination regarding a ceasefire. I like the Fifth Column and I hope there’s rooms for listeners who feel that their analysis of recent events is misguided. I’m going to keep listening as I can’t pretend that this issue has been of primary concern to me before October 7th. But after revisiting my longstanding but dulled criticism of Israel with an open mind toward rethinking my views, I’ve come to the conclusion that the state continues to make mistakes on a colossal scale and that their actions as of late are absolutely not in their best interest.
https://youtu.be/34wA_bdG6QQ?si=CjMRP8uoRAvHBOP0
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1wmR57vaqsDbe9R7dKcH0D?si=jYxLUwxHTgi5wDCrnElHfw
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ibsqP6eORNrPlzuqrl5td?si=jKgl72TPRLSuJgTPFglxpQ
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4c2WHy0Td7xPb6jHG12owS?si=OiODJ_m8SYactCoNv4mMTA
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3two8Pqu8VWdyE18xN6i3D?si=wVYtqamTTD-rDqUixPIN9A
Now I feel obligated to buy into his impending Substack.