"Are Aussies Sexist?" with Sarah Wilson
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps
Josh Szeps
4.5 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
What's wrong with Australian men? What expectations do single, middle-aged women face? What happened to the Left? Sarah Wilson is a global phenomenon -- an activist, journalist, speaker, writer, podcaster and host. She joins Josh on this special crossover episode to wrestle with the biggest questions in our lives.
Notes
Sarah mentions the following study during the show. Details here:
A 2019 Harvard University study that looked at global economies and innovation found that Australia, paradoxically, was both one of the richest nations and the least innovative . . . and that the former led to the latter. Follow the links for more details.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/australia-is-rich-dumb-and-getting-dumber-20191007-p52y8i
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| 0:00.0 | Giday, humans. Welcome to the Contrarian Playground, the safe space for dangerous ideas. Today on the show, Sarah Wilson, look, she is the author, the founder of an entire movement. The book is called I Quit Sugar. But you might remember the I Quit Sugar movement, which became a sort of a global phenomenon, oh, about a decade ago, and all of a sudden everybody was not, was off sugar |
| 0:25.4 | for a while. Sarah is the mastermind behind that trend. And yet, I didn't really want to talk to |
| 0:32.8 | her about sugar or nutrition. I wanted to talk to her about herself, about communication, about what |
| 0:43.4 | is wrong with men and what the expectations are on women and what holds Australia back |
| 0:49.3 | and whether I agree with any of her interpretations about any of those things. And most importantly, how we can |
| 0:55.9 | understand each other better. Sarah is wonderful, beautiful, thoughtful, honest, raw, motivated |
| 1:04.0 | upfront about the fact that she suffers from anxiety. She's a multi-New York Times best-selling |
| 1:10.7 | author. She's an Amazon best-selling author. She's a podcast. You should listen to her podcast, which is called Wild by Sarah Wilson. And she has interviews with big guests. I mean, guests that even make this show's roster blush. See ya. She interviewed Seah. I've been interviewed been interviewed sea sea can you come on the show i like sea quite |
| 1:30.8 | partial to see her anyway uh sarah's great uh i hope that you love her if this is your first introduction |
| 1:36.5 | to her show she was also a television presenter a television host she hosted master chef in australia |
| 1:41.4 | and she was an editor of cosmopolitan magazine so she's a journal she's one of these all-round people who some people find it hard to peg, but as a result, I quite like the cut of those people's jib because they've got a lot of fingers and a lot of pies, a lot of interesting ideas about things. Oh and before I go, I should mention the substack, the upcoming and pending substack. So this show is growing faster than we can cope with. |
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| 2:11.0 | But you'll be able to get extra stuff because clearly there's a demand for it. |
| 2:13.7 | You'll get rants from me. |
| 2:15.4 | You'll get special Instagram live things with special guests and so on, you'll get the opportunity to have little cocktail chatters on Zoom meetups with yours truly and you'll get the weekly newsletter, all this sort of stuff. There'll be a free version, there'll be a paid version, there'll be a you're a rich uncle penny bags version, but to get in the front door and to make sure that you are on the list to get the benefits of being a pre-subscriber before this launches next month, send an email to my producer at uncomfeyconvose at g-mail.com. Uncomfy, un-C-O-M-F-Y, Convose, C-O-N-V-O-S, uncomfey-convos at g-mell.com. |
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| 3:05.6 | Without further ado, please enjoy the heterodox thinker, the one and only, Sarah Wilson. |
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