The Young IPA Podcast

Ep 159: How The Lockdown Is Hurting Young People

The ABC apologises to the IPA (yet some presenters are crying poor over cuts), Greg Hunt basically bribes Australians to download the app and Australia had a Dan-off between Dan Tehan and Dan Andrews over schools. James and Pete recap all this before talking to political commentator Topher Field about protests emerging around Australia against the lockdown and what type of people are protesting  (18:16-36:46). Heroes and villains this week include a fellow IPA staff member getting their work shared by Andrew Neil, the now-vindicated humble pangolin, Debra Messing and murder hornets (36:46-46:09). We also talk to Generation Liberty member Julia Sekulić about losing her job and friends losing their jobs because of lockdown (46:09-58:18). At the end of the show, Pete’s Not Fine spotlights one woman who spent the night in jail for trying to get a fresh towel, the UK’s Independent calls for men to stop manspreading while jogging and James relives one of Twitter’s great days – when The Rock knew about Bin Laden’s death before the media did.

Ep158: The IPA's Poll, That Cook(ed) Tweet & Press Conference Crashing

This week’s Friday show sees James and Pete discuss the IPA’s new poll making headlines, the Deputy CHO in Victoria’s tweet about James Cook and Twiggy Forrest hijacking a government press conference.Likes and Dislikes this week include the Northern Territory (again), 99-year-old Captain Tom Moore’s fundraising efforts, the hypocrisy of the Believe All Women movement and the worst article The Atlantic has run in a long time. Mia Schlicht defends her quiz crown against Pete and Boston Edwards, the IPA’s Campus Coordinator at the University of Wollongong.At the end of the show we have Pete’s Not Fine – Global Edition, ask if aliens exist after the Pentagon releases footage and Justin Amash running for President calls for the replaying of the greatest clip in political history.Enter The Young IPA Podcast’s membership competition and win a copy of Dave Rubin’s Don’t Burn This Book with a signed nameplate. Details in Tuesday’s show!

Ep 157: Dave Rubin

Dave Rubin joins the show this week to talk about his new book Don’t Burn This Book: Thinking For Yourself in the Age of Unreason, the importance of speaking your mind and how not to listen to the mob. Make sure you enter the competition for a signed copy of his book! After the interview, James and Pete talk the rush to download the tracing app, state governments loosening restrictions and wonder why teachers and students are not back in schools – which gets contentious. Heroes and Villains this week include historically unprecedented silent deregulation, sports being back for five glorious hours, people simping for the new North Korean dictator and the obvious drawbacks of the Jobkeeper scheme. At the end, we have another round of Pete’s Not Fine and ask if Donald Trump was really being sarcastic when he wondered about the health benefits of bleach.

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Ep 156: Aussies Hate Compulsory Super

Second show for the week! With 1.5 million Aussies getting their hands on their super, Pete and James ask why it can't always be like this? They boys review Michael Moore’s new doc Planet of the Humans – a devastating critique of renewable energy, with a sinister solution; chat about the problems already hitting the government’s COVID-19 tracing app; and sport might be back! New likes and dislikes segment: Pete falls in love with the NT all over again and doesn’t like the NRL starting before the AFL. While James is getting into jazz and reckons Chris Cuomo needs to pull his head in. We bring back the quiz and Mia Schlict makes her debut as we check in with her and Adam to see how they are surviving lockdown. Pete takes Pete’s Not Fine to the global stage and examines the whacky and spooky ways governments around the world are enforcing lockdowns. As an extra feature for all you diehards – the boys get Andrew Bushnell back on for another draft. This time it’s choose 5 athletes to take aliens in a battle for the fate of the world. Pete has some interesting selections…

Ep 155: Adam Creighton, Dr Chris Berg And Tracking Apps

The government announces a tracking app to fight coronavirus, protests break out in America against social distancing restrictions and James has precisely 30 seconds to explain the best solutions to Virgin Airways going into voluntary administration. Economics Editor of The Australian Adam Creighton joins the show to discuss the economic effects of the lockdown restrictions, why the nature of the debate has changed on coronavirus and why Australia is about to have its biggest population drop in decades (10:15-22:28). Heroes and Villains this week includes Jacinda Ardern taking a 20% pay cut, Elon Musk, Patton Oswalt making our century’s “let them eat cake” statement and Britain’s top cop breaking their own social distancing laws. Dr Chris Berg, host of The Looking Forward Podcast, joins the show to talk about the government’s tracking app, what we know so far and the inherent privacy concerns whenever the government announces something like this (34:38-54:57). At the end, Pete debuts Pete’s Not Fine to keep a track of all the social distancing fines that are being handed out, we discuss Turnbull’s new book and the 28 gender experts lending their minds to our country’s coronavirus efforts.

Ep 154: You Can Now Be Fined For Playing Video Games

Pete and James ask why Parliament is going on hiatus when we could see Bob Katter use zoom, marvel at the NSW Minister who still maintains he did nothing wrong despite getting fined for breaking the lockdown, talk about the group of mates in Victoria fined over 5k for playing video games, and agree with Donald Trump for saying the WHO are trash. Amazingly, the ABC are among the heroes this week, along with ‘all of us’. Villains were much more standard - the NYT and the UN. We then talk with Macquarie University Generation Liberty Campus Coordinator Anjali Nadaradjane about Generation Liberty’s latest video – Viral Banter: The Gen Lib CoVID Forum. And finish off with Scott Cam bowing to the Young IPA Podcast pressure and relinquishing his post, and the politicians who gave their pay rises to charity.

Episode 153: The ABC Dog Us & Brendan O'Neill

A giant week of news calls for a bonus episode! The ABC does some real journalism airing the IPA's new video, but taking out a key sentence. Boris Johnson is in the ICU with Coronavirus yet the tide is turning as more people, including medical experts, call for the protection of civil liberties. The EU is struggling to deal with what Merkel is calling the EU's biggest ever challenge - who knew a giant, creaking bureaucracy would struggle to deal with a crisis? Heroes and Villains this week includes Gideon Rozner (and the humble plastic bag), former NBA player Jay Williams tries to save sport, the Scottish Chief Health Officer flouting her own lockdown laws and the Victorian police officer who gave an L-plater a $1,600 fine for practising safe driving. Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked, joins the show to talk about the mood in the UK, the balance between public saftety and civil liberties, the class divides being exposed in Coronavirus and why he, an avowed republican, praised the Queen over the weekend (30:35-53:15). At the end of the show, we discuss Pete's newfound fame after last week's show promo went viral and John Hewson's creepy article in The Conversation.

Ep 152: Wage Subsidies, Police States And How To Survive Self Isolation

The wage subsidies come in which sends Australia into massive debt, the cops are driving through public parks warning people for reading books, Queensland public sector workers get a pay rise and China is lying – it’s grim reading but James and Pete try to make sense of it all. Heroes and villains this week include companies building masks and providing alcohol to hospitals – yet apparently those things are bad, the WHO refusing to acknowledge Taiwan despite how well they’re doing against coronavirus and John Roskam COPPING it from the Executive Officer of the Traffic Management Association of Australia. Generation Liberty Campus Coordinator Boston Edwards joins the show after coming out of self isolation to give his top tips as to what to do when it eventually happens to James and Pete. At the end, we go through the Governor of New York having an all time sibling spat live on CNN, public health academics asking for warning labels to be put on petrol pumps when they should be put on bats, and the NSW police are trying to be cool.

Ep 151 - We're At War With The NBN And Drafting TV Shows With Andrew Bushnell

The boys are still self-isolating and are both at war the NBN, but the show must go on! We talk coronavirus and the government's lockdown of all non-essential businesses, government services minister Stuart Robert's bad, bad day explaining what happened with mygov and Centrelink and the Ruby Princess debacle. Heroes and villains this week include Elon Musk donating ventilators, the Italian mayors cutting loose on people breaking lockdowns, The New York Times' incredible reporting of the stimulus and Wendy Harmer using working from home to call for more money to the ABC. Andrew Bushnell joins us to bemoan his own problems with the NBN and we draft 'Shows To Binge In A Lockdown' - head to Instagram to vote for a winner! (18:32-44:39) At the end, Pete and James discuss the latest entry to our segment Joe Biden Is 1000 years old, and how Donald Trump, Jeffrey Guterman and Mehreen Faruqi have lost their minds.

Corona, discrimination on campus and Pete and James in isolation!

Pete and James are BOTH in self-isolation from the dreaded COVID-19 so it was up to Adam and Gideon Rozner to step in! The boys talked about tax cuts for the airlines to stimulate the economy and the incredible discrimination against Generation Liberty at Monash University. Then they skype the two workshy recalcitrants themselves to find out what they've been up while they've been away from IPA HQ. Unfortunately no quiz this week, but the boys finish off by talking social distancing at Q&A, the brave Chinese blogger giving it to the CCP and Minecraft defending freedom of expression.