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Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

THE PANEL: Ben Fordham & Antoinette Lattouf

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

Josh Szeps

Comedy Interviews, Education, Society & Culture, Comedy, Self-improvement

4.5905 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Sydney's #1 talk radio host, the legendary Ben Fordham, joins journalist, podcaster and explosive former ABC provocateur Antoinette Lattouf to debate the big stories of the week. 

 

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0:00.0

No, I don't. I'm good. Yeah, great. Fabulous. Terrific. Welcome to the panel. Today, discussing the most

0:09.5

important news of the week. We have colourful Sydney identity, Ben Fordham. I thought you're going to

0:14.3

say intranet with too. Hey, hey, hey, have you only started taping. Have you not been Googling her

0:18.6

recently? Ben said that he wanted to be introduced as a colourful Sydney identity.

0:23.3

He has the highest rating morning radio show in Sydney, probably in Australia.

0:28.5

At the moment.

0:29.0

He says humbly.

0:30.2

Well, you never know.

0:31.1

Breakfast with Ben Fordham on 2GP.

0:34.0

And Antoinette Latouf, independent journalist, author and host of the Antoinette's fabulous podcast. How's the podcast going? You've only been doing it for a second. Yeah. Oh, it's been a couple of months. It's a lot of fun. Great. You and another person called Antoinette. Her's, she's, is it only because her name was Antoinette? Is that the reason why the two of you were together? The show wasn't initially going to be called The Antoinettes, but every time we had a meeting with our production partner, I would just put like The Antoinettes and DM podcasts. And then they'd be like, you know what? The Antoinette has, you know. It's got a certain name. It's discriminatory though, isn't it? To anyone who's not though, isn't it? Well, yeah, you can only be Antoinette to get on podcast.

1:12.6

Well, that's what I was thinking.

1:13.6

If ever one of us is unwell or one of us, like, I have to find another co-host who's called Antoinette. And there's swim pickings. There aren't a lot of Antoinette. It hasn't been popular since about 1890. I reckon if you want to be successful, Ben, you need to find a Ben, another Ben.

1:12.3

Yeah, the Ben.

1:12.8

And do the Ben.

1:13.7

The Ben, do you have to share that?

1:14.6

Do you have to be successful, Ben, you need to find a Ben, another Ben, and do the Ben's. The Ben, do you have to share the money with them? Is that how it works as well? Yes. Oh, well. We'll talk later. We'll talk later about that. Ben, I think on the money that 2GB pays, you're doing okay. Yeah. You could probably split it. You could probably go halvesies and you'd still be all right. We did try and hire you at one point, Josh Zett. And we're allowed to spill those kind of secrets here?

1:28.6

You never made it. You could probably go halvesies and you'd still be all right. We did try and hire you at one point, Josh Zet. And we're allowed to spill those kind of secrets here? You never made it,

1:48.4

no, 2GB never made a formal offer me. Two GB made inquiries about securing your services. True or

1:53.1

false? No comment. I never received an offer from 2GB. Let me repeat. Two GB made inquiries

1:59.9

about securing Josh's services. Ah, in hindsight, how much, how many, no, this isn't recent. A couple of years ago. Yeah, look, how many headaches could potentially have been avoided, not just for me, but for everybody. Or created, 2GV. Yeah, that's what I was saying. I'm thinking about all the drama we missed out. That's right. Exactly.

2:21.2

Look, one of the things in the news this week that I wanted to pick your brains on is this Aussie activist who's on TikTok.

2:23.4

And what he does is in order to resolve the housing crisis, he goes around and identifies

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