"Influencers, In-Fights & New Media" with Hannah Ferguson
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps
Josh Szeps
4.5 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
At 26, Hannah Ferguson is one of the most influential young women in Australia. Her media company, Cheek Media, boasts an army of politically-engaged, progressive female fans. Ferguson co-hosts the smash hit podcast Big Small Talk, which breaks down politics and pop culture.
An unapologetic progressive, she recently interviewed the prime minister and earned the honour of speaking at one of Australia's most prestigious forums, the National Press Club address. Ferguson intends to run for the senate and to someday be prime minister.
She and Josh wrestle with new media and old, feminism, schisms in the online mediaverse, Rupert Murdoch, and holding guests - and themselves - to account.
Watch this conversation on YouTube. And you’re missing out on our best ad-free content if you haven’t popped over to the Uncomfy Convos Substack page.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Giday, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. And it's a dangerous notion |
| 0:07.9 | to those of us who grew up in a time before social media. The notion that the conventional |
| 0:14.4 | media, the big titans who control it like Rupert Murdoch, is giving way to a new crazy |
| 0:20.2 | landscape of podcasts like this and podcasts that |
| 0:23.6 | are much worse and some, maybe one or two, that are a little bit better. One of the faces of new media, |
| 0:30.6 | especially new female media, is Hannah Ferguson. She's 26 years old and dominates a young media empire in Australia. She's one of the |
| 0:40.3 | faces of the new progressive media landscape, has billions of followers, and is fearless and |
| 0:45.8 | unafraid about pursuing her progressive agenda in the Australian media landscape. A fierce critic |
| 0:50.9 | of Rupert Murdoch and the legacy Press. She co-hosts the podcast Big Small |
| 0:56.1 | Talk, which is a weekly news show that breaks down politics and also pop culture to her army of |
| 1:02.4 | young female audiences. Before the last Australian election, the Prime Minister came and sat down |
| 1:07.0 | with her. The leader of the Greens Party came and sat down with her. She copped a lot of criticism for doing softball interviews, but she says, gotcha questions are really not the point. |
| 1:16.7 | She recently gave her first post-election address with the enormous honour of being invited to |
| 1:21.4 | deliver the National Press Club address, which is an extremely fancy and hoity-toity honour |
| 1:26.3 | in Australian politics and journalism. |
| 1:28.6 | She was asked if she intends to run for politics. She's been unabashed about saying she wants |
| 1:33.0 | to be the Prime Minister of Australia someday. I wouldn't put it past her. And she confessed |
| 1:37.2 | that she wants to run as an independent senator in the 28 election. We talked about the changing |
| 1:43.1 | media landscape, the power of the young female vote and the future of the media election. We talked about the changing media landscape, the power of the young female vote, |
| 1:46.7 | and the future of the media in Australia and beyond. |
| 1:49.6 | I hope you enjoy as much as I did, the one, the only, Hannah Ferguson. |
| 1:58.6 | Where's your head at the moment? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Josh Szeps, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Josh Szeps and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.