Progressive Podcast Australia

Progressive Podcast Australia

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  • EP130 - The 5 things I learned about Medical Tourism

    I get asked a lot about my experiences in medical tourism. As many of you know, I had major surgery in Guadalajara, Mexico, that saved me about $120K vs. having it in the USA. But it was a massive leap of faith, and if anyone is looking down the barrel at a similar situation, Im hoping what I learned from it might just help you out.

    1 hr 23 min
  • EP129 - Escape to Canada with Brandon Miller

    On this episode, I'm joined by Brandon Miller who is an expert in helping people move to Canada. I was surprised to find out that the barriers to entry to Canada that I thought were there change everyday, and Brandon knows of literally 100 different methods that people can use to migrate to Canada if they choose to. Additionally, we talk about Brandon's own experience in living in Asia for many years, what he learned by being an actual nomad himself so that he can completely relate to what his clients want for themselves and their families.

    1 hr 25 min
  • Challenging the Erasure of Indigenous Voices in the Environmental Movement
    Episode 277 features Sarah, a Maori wahine living on Dharawal Country, and Criminology researcher, on Indigenous critiques of the movie Dont Look Up (Netflix) and why Indigenous knowledge is so important in creating effective responses to climate change and environmental problems generally. This episode is also available in video form on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-FN2lllgEg&t=4s This discussion builds on our last episode, which covered Dont Look Up and also the effectiveness of different individual actions for the climate: https://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2022/01/25/276/ Music: Treaty 18 by Yothu Yindi and Gavin Campbell, ft Baker Boy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZafP2DD8lpc Shadows by Briggs ft. Troy Cassar-Daley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQOjepa-IUA Links from Sarah: For further info on the significance of Mauna Kea: www.protectmaunakea.net To understand Land Back priorities/actions in a Turtle Island context: www.landback.org Old media articles on the eviction of Indigenous tribes from their ancestral land in India: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/25/land-grab-tribal-people-india-adivasi https://www.iwgia.org/en/india/3314-millions-of-indigenous-peoples-facing-eviction-india.html Australia's first Indigenous youth climate network: www.seedmob.org.au Links from Nick: Examples of discussions around Indigenous critiques of Dont Look Up and/or Indigenous contributions to the environmental movement: https://twitter.com/uahikea/status/1477450954026799105 https://twitter.com/kenzieeharriss/status/1476819693105291268 https://www.climate-uni.com/post/climate-change-indigenous-knowledge-learning-from-losing-alaska https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/booked-indigenous-resistance-is-post-apocalyptic-with-nick-estes Todd, Zoe. 2016. An Indigenous Feminists Take on the Ontological Turn: Ontology is Just Another Word for Colonialism. Journal of Historical Sociology 29:1, 4-22. Search #dontlookup indigenous on Twitter for more of these discussions. Sources on whiteness in the environmental movement: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/30/green-groups-too-white-too-male-other-sectors-report https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/numbers-don-t-lie-green-movement-remains-overwhelmingly-white-report-n1253972 Here is the graph on increased emissions despite major climate agreements that was mentioned at the start of the show: https://twitter.com/kickitinthesun/status/1488544782112673795?t=c5MlJefkug_KgOlkt3RrQA&s=19 You can hear Jon, a listener of our show, discuss being Maori AND vegan on episode 202 of our show: https://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2018/02/19/202/ You can also hear Nick discuss sentience and the non-human world (among many other topics) on episode 88 of the Sentientism podcast: https://pod.link/1540408008/episode/9f3539f037bab81c9d50e3493925b652?fbclid=IwAR1V0fB0JmLZbaifYwBBKTcMH1YDxP-DX1LYHdyFZ_wOV6Geh1LGzaZe3YY For more in-depth show notes, including additional links, go to: https://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2022/02/20/277/ If you enjoy the music we play on our show, check out our Spotify playlist Progressive Podcast Australia Music and Comedy! https://open.spotify.com/user/bronzecat83/playlist/6DK5AzWfrxSDcpHWlLsWi6
    53 min
  • EP128 - Winning with rising interest rates

    As I record this, Goldman Sachs have stated that they expect the US Federal Reserve to raise interest rates 6 times this year. And many speculators are thinking the Fed will try and get to about a 2.5% base interest rate in order to try and reign in inflation. But although we had this only a couple of years ago, this could result in a lot of changes in the economical world that we all live in. In this episode I want to discuss different strategies that you can have to deal with rising interest rates in your own personal finances.

    1 hr 1 min
  • EP127 - Time to give up containing COVID

    Something noticeable appears to be happening. Countries are starting to get real with COVID, and move from a strategy of containment to a strategy acceptance and learning to live with it. Calls for some countries to accept that past strategies of containment havent worked, and have in fact destroyed individual freedoms, commerce and mental health, are being heard everywhere. No more so than in my home country of Australia. So in this episode I put out the same call for sanity here, and how the future may look for all of us.

    1 hr 7 min
  • EP126 - Surviving Inflation

    Your dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Thats hard to accept and process. But even though Ive been telling you this for years now, it seems more of us are starting to accept it. The question now is How can I learn to live with inflation, and how can I combat it?

    51 min
  • Is the Environmental Movement Promoting the Most Effective Individual Actions for the Climate?
    On episode 276 Nick is joined by Adam Cardilini to discuss the movie Dont Look Up (Netflix) and compare individual actions for the climate commonly promoted in the environmental movement with scientific research on the most effective actions. We do this by discussing the actions promoted on the website https://www.count-us-in.org/en-gb/project/ and the following scientific article: Wynes, S. and Nicholas, K. A. 2017. The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions. Environ. Res. Lett., 12(7), 1-9: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541 This show is replayed from Nicks other show Freedom of Species on 3CR Community Radio. You can check out this show at the following site and you can also subscribe to it on a bunch of apps including iTunes and Spotify: https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies This show is a continuation of our last episode Episode 275: Dont Look UpActually You Probably Should! Re-Engaging with the Climate Crisis: https://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2022/01/18/275/ Adam recommends the website https://drawdown.org/ over count-us-in.org for websites measuring the impact of different individual actions of the climate. Nick recommends the book Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber: https://booko.com.au/works/7812484 Dont Look Up Doesnt Get the Climate Crisis By Eric Levitz: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/dont-look-up-climate-metaphor-review.html Brian Cox Breaks Down The Science Behind Dont Look Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntaidEKs_Ks Music and other clips: Animal liberation by Los Fastidios: https://www.losfastidios.net/ Clip from Dont Look Up (Netflix). Union speaker Luke on just transitions for fossil fuel workers, from the Climate Crisis National Day of Action event in Melbourne, Feb 22, 2020: https://archive.org/details/climaterally The Voracious March of Godliness by Bad Religion: https://badreligion.com/albums/no-substance Work-Rest-Play-Die (live) by Subhumans: https://subhumans.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-a-dive For more in-depth show notes, including additional links, go to: https://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2022/01/25/276/ If you enjoy the music we play on our show, check out our Spotify playlist Progressive Podcast Australia Music and Comedy! https://open.spotify.com/user/bronzecat83/playlist/6DK5AzWfrxSDcpHWlLsWi6
    59 min
  • EP125 - The Singularity

    Since the days of George Orwell in the 1940s, we have been warned of a dystopian future a future of Big Brother, lack of personal freedom and individual sovereignty, but it wasnt until about 25 years ago, that the technologies became available that would give Big Brother the weaponry to entrap humanity at scale. As we launch into a new year, I want this episode to remind us all of the perilous descent to enslavement that we find us on, and what you need to do to remain vigilant and unconstrained.

    55 min
  • Dont Look Up. Actually You Probably Should! Re-Engaging with the Climate Crisis
    On episode 275 we discuss the movie Don't Look Up (Netflix), putting our energy back into climate action after the movement has lost momentum during the pandemic and avoiding burnout when coping with the reality of the climate crisis. This show is a 3CR Summer Special we encourage everyone to listen to and support 3CR Community Radio! https://www.3cr.org.au/summerspecials2021-2022 Links: Graham Readfearn, Australia ranked last of 60 countries for policy response to climate crisis on theguardian.com: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/09/australia-ranked-last-of-60-countries-for-policy-response-to-climate-crisis We also briefly discuss the website https://www.count-us-in.org/en-gb/project/ and the article: Wynes, S. and Nicholas, K. A. 2017. The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions. Environ. Res. Lett., 12(7), 1-9: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541 We will discuss both of these in more detail on the next show. Clips/Music: DONT LOOK UP, Official Teaser Trailer Netflix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL9aJcqrtnw Just Look Up (From Dont Look Up) by Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnyvDBGojoQ 2 clips from Dont Look Up (Netflix). Pink Convertible by MARINA: https://www.marinaofficial.co.uk/music I haven't been taking care of myself by Alex Lahey: https://alexlahey.bandcamp.com/album/i-love-you-like-a-brother For more in-depth show notes, including additional links, go to: https://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2022/01/18/275/ If you enjoy the music we play on our show, check out our Spotify playlist Progressive Podcast Australia Music and Comedy! https://open.spotify.com/user/bronzecat83/playlist/6DK5AzWfrxSDcpHWlLsWi6
    59 min

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