Or: one road to the horrorshow.
There’s plenty of stuff that’s been written about the recent wave of revelations about powerful men abusing their power to get sexual attention from women. Many people have explained in detail how wrong that behaviour is, and others have outlined excellentl...
I met Al Murray remotely, doing a Bugle podcast. He was in London in the studio with Andy Zaltzman, I was in the foyer of the ABC studios in Melbourne.
We drank tea in Camden, and talked about belief, anger, organisation, gendered laws, history, Vanta Black, politics and the new world. ...
2017-11-24 18:55:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Steele Saunders drinks turmeric and ginger tea to fit in with the Tea With Alice brand, talking the class issues of Iced Coffee, Overdoses, how to make meaning in life, Star Wars as a microcosm of society and angry fans.
I had a moment the other day of wishing for a more structured set of rules of engagement.
This is possibly the result of me reading too much historical fiction, but also having learned German as a kid.
The difference between the formal Sie and the informal Du, the Regency formality th...
There's a certain argument that I have been hearing a lot of in the wake of the #metoo hashtag about the kinds of men that women are 'outing' as harassers.
Rather than describing the argument, I'll give some examples:
"The ability to label men as ‘creepy' is just one privilege that w...
2017-11-08 02:19:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Laurie Kilmartin sat with me in LA over black tea with creamer (no camomile!), talking about dating while being a comedian and single mother, what you can ask of partners, death sharing and American Politics.
Here you go: ht...
2017-11-06 08:07:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patreonites. Some of the higher tier subscribers have the option of requesting content (articles/podcast topic/etc) that they would like me to post or topics to discuss. This is one of those posts.
I guess you'd call it a sponsored post, though I have kept the question asker anonymous at ...
2017-11-01 23:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWell, my sheltered childhood and uncool young- adulthood of not watching much TV is finally coming in handy.
Everyone’s all, “did you hear about X being a creep!?” And I’m like, “who?”
And then they explain it, and then I’m all like, “oh, I can see why that would be...
I had a lovely cuppa with Troy Conrad, over a triple bag (!) of lemon herbal tea. We talked about alkalising the body, and about relationships - whether it's possible to remake your character, and being a good person.
Here you go: <...
2017-10-30 06:19:46 +0000 UTC View PostI did an interview about why I’m not a lawyer anymore. https://goo.gl/dWEVRa
2017-10-27 01:03:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m not a big fan of beauty. I mean, I enjoy beautiful things and find many kinds of people beautiful, but messages about ‘access’ to beauty bother me. You know the ones I mean - the every body is beautiful ones.
The push for public acknowledgement of a wider range of beauty is ...
2017-10-26 05:18:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Over Rooibos tea, I spoke to Lisa Sharon Harper, consultant, church engagement officer and activist about the American Narrative Gap, the conflicts of identity, her experience at Charlottesville, and more.
Jarrod McKenna, friend of the podcast acts as a translator for esoteric church/activis...
2017-10-23 04:39:07 +0000 UTC View PostI'm hoping to refine what I'm doing here a little bit with your feedback - topic suggestions, people you know who you'd like me to talk to, more of x, less of y.
This is a bit of a grab bag of things I saw people at podfest doing specially for their people, and wanted to see if I could make more t...
2017-10-18 05:55:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The Chamomile Vigilante
I'm sorry this ep is going up a little late - I lost a day in transit from LA to Sydney, but I hope you'll enjoy it.
I spoke over Chamomile tea with Graham Elwood, who cohosts Comedy Film Nerds, is one of the organisers and originating minds behind the Los Angel...
2017-10-18 05:37:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday (12 October) was the anniversary of my mum’s death. I’ve written about this before - at length, here on this blog and in my sad poetry blog. I’ve spoken about it, both in my podcast, in my TEDx talk and in my show Savage.
I will put up (again) the podcast that I did with Lucy...
I was up on the Comedy Film Nerds Podcast with Graham Elwood and Chris Mancini talking about Bladerunner 2049.
It was the day after the Podcast Festival and Graham Elwood mentioned that he would be watching Bladerunner 2049 at a cinema in LA later that day. I brought some snacks. I always fe...
So I’ve just finished up my time at the LA Podcast Festival. It was a fascinating and excellent weekend, at the ridiculously pretty Millenium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
The second-last event of the festival was a talk given by the organisers about the difficulties involved in p...
This week's podcast is with Paul Gilmartin of the Mental Illness Happy Hour Podcast.
I spoke to him about shame, his experience with doing a podcast about mental illness, and American Politics.
Here you go: 2017-10-09 08:45:38 +0000 UTC View Post
I am in L.A at the moment. After having returned briefly to Sydney to hang out with dad and sleep in the empty shell of my family home (dad is selling up, so the house was being painted and floored and all that pre-sale stuff), I have flown to America for the L.A Podfest.
This trip was paid f...
This week on the podcast, I talk to my friend, Andrew X, engineer, polymath, autodidact and hospitality worker.
Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy
Non- itunes listeners can 2017-10-02 09:14:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I sat with friend and friend of the podcast Justin Hamilton over a long black and an English Breakfast.
Non- itunes listeners can 2017-09-25 10:44:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Chaps
This is a true ramble at a wall by me. Enjoy almost completely incoherent solo chat about death threats, free will, and Artificial Intelligence.
2017-09-18 12:08:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo lovely punks.
This morning I landed back in Sydney from London. This evening I did one of the Just For Laughs comedy galas at the Opera house.
That flying in in the morning, performing that night is an interesting (read, probably v silly) thing to do. For those of you who weren'...
This is a long chat. Tiff is incredibly easy to talk to for ages, and I definitely did that. We cover a lot of ground here, from representation in standup, to the feeling of having done Edinburgh, to whether you should respect people's cultures even when you don't agree with their values.
I love talking to Laura, and it's been lovely to hang out with her in Edinburgh and also London.
We had Choc-Mint Rooibos tea and talked about Moths, Travel, Existential Crises, the Essential trouble with Comedic News Satire and Laura's take on her first Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Hi pals. My excellent all-round hench-human Sarah has built new merch for you guys, based on the line in my show Savage "only the unfinished can contain the infinite.
and it's up at the shop here: http://www.al...
Perhaps it's the hair-resemblance, perhaps it's the shared tea obsession, perhaps it's the fact that I have such fun on the Bugle, but I love chatting with Andy Zaltzman. He is a very sweet and lovely man, who has forcibly carved for himself a niche in comedy and podcasting - gathering people who ar...
2017-08-28 13:53:19 +0000 UTC View PostOh god - it's the final day of the Fringe. This one happened to me very fast, although this is the first year I'm not doing multiple full length shows.
Friday and Saturday night were lovely - Saturday night especially so because sold out and the excellent Phill Jupitus was in the front row, a...
I can't believe we're in the last week. I feel like I've lost some days in this blog, but I can't figure out where.
Edinburgh is very absorbing - it feels like a sort of Jetlag, in that days are very long but they melt into one another. One day you might be doing six promo spots, the next da...
