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Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

THE PANEL: Mardi Gras, Doxxing & Psychedelics

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

Josh Szeps

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

4.5905 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week, Josh is joined on the panel couch by Courtney Act, one of the world’s most iconic drag queens (or, rather, by her even more captivating alter ago, Shane Jenek) and by the ABC's National Technology Reporter, Ange Lavoipierre.

 

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0:00.0

Are we rolling?

0:01.0

Are you just

0:03.0

Are we rolling?

0:05.0

There's psilocybin in the water.

0:06.0

I've seen nine perfect strangers.

0:08.0

Oh, however long we want to, you know, maybe four hours, five hours.

0:12.0

Six of my, six max.

0:14.0

Setting a timer.

0:15.0

Six max for minimum.

0:16.0

It's time for the panel where two of Australia's most captivating minds gently hand pluck

0:22.5

a bespoke selection of the week's most scintillating stories and like a pair of exotic birds

0:28.6

gently regurgitate those stories into your and my grateful earholes, our chatterers today,

0:35.2

Angela Voispierre and Shane Genick, otherwise known sometimes as Courtney Act. Anja, who are you for the listener who doesn't know you? I'm the ABC's national tech reporter as of this week. Is that a promotion? I like to think so. What were you before you were a national tech reporter? I suppose before that I was an investigative reporter at background briefing and I would you say

0:54.8

you were a gadfly what's a gadfly not sure sounds like a sounds like a sort of a woman about town at the

1:01.5

ABC a tramp your words not mine uh Shane you're a proud tramp what else I am a proud tramp

1:10.5

I've even been called a tramp no sorry that was a tart that's different Shane, you're a proud tramp. What else are you in your life? I am a proud tramp.

1:12.7

I've even been called a tramp.

1:14.5

No, sorry, that was a tart.

1:15.1

That's different. I mean, they're similar. They're adjacent. They're close enough. By Anne Wittickham, conservative politician. For the three people in the universe who don't know who you are, who are you? Yes. Who are you? I am fundamentally a cross-dresser.

1:10.4

No, I am a performer, entertainer, singer.

1:13.3

I love that you thought that was a performer, entertainer, singer.

1:29.8

I love that you thought that was a joke, but it's literally a statement of fact. Yeah, it is a statement of fact. I am a cross-dresser. Yeah. Well, it depends on which capacity. It's just been a while since I've heard that term, I suppose. I was tickled. It's all-school, isn't it? It's good. I said this to a friend.

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