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In this week's episode of the New Flesh Podcast, Ricky and Jon interview Julie Szego. Julie is a journalist who wrote for The Age on and off for more than two decades as a social affairs reporter and senior writer. Most recently Julie was a weekly columnist for The Age before being sacked by the paper in June 2023, after calling out the newspaper over its refusal to run her commissioned article on youth gender transition. She subsequently self-published the piece on Substack.

Julie has taught journalism and creative non-fiction at RMIT, and Monash University and is the author of the non-fiction book The Tainted Trial of Farah Jama, which was shortlisted for the Victorian and NSW Premiers’ Literary Awards for 2015. 

Topics covered include; Julie's writing on the subject of childhood transition, the media coverage in the aftermath of the LET WOMEN SPEAK TOUR, the wokeness of the Australian Broadcasting corporation (ABC) AND more. 

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Szego Unplugged (Substack)
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Transgender TERF war - Media Watch:

https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/szeg/102524030

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Julie Szego dropped for her gender critical reporting - Binary Australia:

https://www.binary.org.au/julie_szego_dropped_for_her_gender_critical_reporting

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LGBTQ is really QTBGL Because lesbians always come last - Szego Unplugged:

https://szegounplugged.substack.com/p/lgbtq-is-really-qtbgl

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In this week's episode of the New Flesh Podcast, Ricky and Jon interview return Angie Jones. Angie is a Melbourne based gender critical woman, who runs the YouTube channel TERF Talk Down Under. Angie is a fierce advocate for women, and is outspoken about self ID, biological men in women’s spaces, and the right for females and girls to have sex-separated sports categories. She recently gave a speech in the Federal parliament on the subject “Why can’t women talk about sex?” 

Topics covered include; the controversy surrounding the Let Women Speak Tour Down-Under and it's immediate aftermath, the censorship  behind closed doors in newsrooms around the country in relation to trans ideology, Daniel Andrews Parliament hosted drag queen story hour AND more.  

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Let Women Speak: The Vilification of Angie Jones - Women's Forum
https://www.womensforumaustralia.org/the_vilification_of_angie_jones

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In this month's RE-PLAY, Ricky brings you the Wilfred Reilly interview from April 2022. Wilfred is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University. He’s a political scientist and holds a PhD in Political Science from Southern Illinois University and a law degree from the University of Illinois. He’s the author of two books: Hate Crime Hoax, AND Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About. He uses data to challenge widely held beliefs in the political and media landscape.

Topics covered include the Jussie Smolett case and the increasing trend of hate crime hoaxes in the U.S. As well as BLM and the de-fund the police movement. 

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In this week's episode of the New Flesh Podcast, Ricky and Jon interview return guest Ed West. Ed is former deputy editor of UnHerd, a journalist, essayist, author AND substacker. He’s written for The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator and has authored books on a diverse array of topics - from the art of seduction to British History. His is most recent book is called “Tory Boy: Memoirs of the Last Conservative”. 

Topics covered include; Ed's hilarious trip to France, thoughts on the first anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's death, the new woke James Bond novel, why British comedy is so special, the 40th anniversary of British sitcom Blackadder, the demise of Little Britain AND more.  

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The Wrong Side Of History
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We hail Blackadder, we hail Blackadder! - The Wrong Side Of History:
https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/we-hail-blackadder-we-hail-blackadder
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Meet the awful new progressive James Bond - The Spectator:
https://thespectator.com/book-and-art/awful-progressive-james-bond-charlie-higson/

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In this week's episode of the New Flesh Podcast, Ricky and Jon interview Steven Edginton. Steven is a journalist, interviewer, documentary maker and video Comment Editor at the Daily Telegraph in the UK. He’s interviewed some heavy hitters including Jordan Peterson, Steven Pinker, Lionel Shriver and many others. 

We spoke to Steven about his early beginnings in journalism, outrage archaeology, the current online campaign to get him fired, and most importantly his documentary exploring crime and drugs in San Francisco and the vocal reparations movement there. We also covered the nightmare that is the assisted dying program in Canada.

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Inside San Francisco's plan to give black people $5m | Documentary - YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r93D5bWD3iI

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In this week's episode of the New Flesh Podcast, Ricky and Jon interview Reid Nicewonder. Reid is the creator and host of "Cordial Curiosity" - a YouTube channel that posts conversations about a variety of polarized topics. Reid follows a variation of the Socratic Method to expose and understand the ways in which everyday people come to have their strongly held beliefs. A Graduate from UCF film school, Reid is a cinephile and an avid science & tech enthusiast. 

Reid took the boys through a comprehensive street epistemology session where they explored the claim "public bathrooms should be segregated by sex?"

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Find Cordial Curiosity on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@CordialCuriosity
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Find out more about Street Epistemology here:
https://streetepistemology.com/

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In this week's episode of the New Flesh Podcast, Ricky and Jon interview Umut Özkırımlı. Umut is a Senior Research Fellow at IBEI (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals), a professor at Blanquerna, Ramon Llull University, and a Senior Research Associate at CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs). He is also the Academic Director of the Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. 

Umut is the author of the acclaimed Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction, currently in its third edition. His writings appear frequently in The Guardian, openDemocracy, Times Higher Education, Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, among others. His most recent book is “Canceled: the Left Way Back From Woke”

Topics covered include; the origins of the term "woke", the commodification of identity, the wokeness of Sweden, the bogus "hashtag-me-too" allegations leveled at Umut and the contradictions in the "hashtag-me-too" movement, the changing focus of leftest politics from class/income inequality to race/gender, the left's endless infighting AND more.   

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The New Puritans - The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-puritans-mob-justice-canceled/619818/

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In this week's episode of the New Flesh Podcast, Ricky and Jon interview Bo Winegard. Bo is the executive editor of Aporia Magazine. He received his PhD in social psychology from Florida State University. Bo was a professor teaching at Marietta College, before his controversial research area got him fired from academia.

Topics covered include; Bo's cancellation, academic freedom, the influence of blank-slate-theory on wokeism, differences in intelligence across populations, Clint Eastwood movies, the Sex & The City reboot AND more.

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An assistant professor says he was fired because he dared to talk about human population variation and got slandered as a eugenicist – Inside Higher Ed:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/03/12/assistant-professor-says-hes-been-fired-because-he-dared-talk-about-human-population

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In this week's episode of the New Flesh Podcast, Ricky and Jon interview Saul Austerlitz. Saul is an adjunct professor of writing and comedy history at New York University. He is the author of Generation Friends, named by Vulture as one of the “15 Best Books About TV Comedies”; and Kind of a Big Deal, about the movie "Anchorman”. Topics covered include; the history and characteristics of a sitcom, what makes a good sitcom, why most sitcoms are city specific, the creation and enduring appeal of Friends, the controversy surrounding its lack of diversity, the 90s gay-panic trope AND more. 

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‘Friends’ lack of diversity ‘embarrassed’ its co-creator. So she made a $4-million decision – LA Times:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-06-29/friends-diversity-marta-kauffman-brandeis-university

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In this month's RE-PLAY, Ricky brings you the Helen Joyce interview from December 2022. Helen's appearance is one of the most successful New Flesh Podcast episodes and is mandatory listening for anyone concerned about the Trans issue.

Helen Joyce is a journalist, feminist campaigner and author. She has written extensively for The Economist - where she’s held a variety of positions since 2005. We spoke to Helen about her bestselling book "Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality" and covered many topics including; rapid onset gender dysphoria, trans contagion, autogynophilia, the origins of the term "gender" AND more.

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https://www.thehelenjoyce.com/
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