The Young IPA Podcast

James finally gets to talk about the NBA on the podcast – it’s just a shame it’s because they’re cowards. James and Pete talk about the NBA capitulating to China and recap the latest round of climate protests around Australia and ask why climate protesters never block streets in lefty suburbs. Our heroes and villains this week include South Park, Newton’s Third Law of Motion, a Seattle education authority that says maths is a tool of oppression and Justin Trudeau's unbelievable pivot on questions about his blackface habits. Tim Wilson MP joins us after taking part in the Hong Kong protests to describe what he saw and why Hong Kong protesters aren’t like Occupy Melbourne despite what his critics think (18:42-28:09). We also talk to Vale Sloane, Associate Director of Institute Relations at the Atlas Network about all the great work the Atlas network is doing around the world that is lifting people out of poverty and why he's bullish about Africa, why foreign aid isn’t the best solution for solving poverty and which area of the world will experience the next big economic development (28:09-44:12). At the end of the show, James and Pete discuss the ‘scandal’ of Ellen DeGeneres being able to sit next to George W Bush at a football game without screaming, a baffling proposal to end knife crime, Jeremy Corbyn apparently “gearing up” for an election and people finding it hard to get home loans for joke bank transfer statements.

Australia is making international headlines over Donald Trump's impeachment saga and the media is losing its mind about it. We talk that and RMIT university giving a Chinese government agency overriding authority over teaching at its Confucius Institute, as well as the upcoming National Driver Licence Facial Recognition Solution which will totally never ever be hacked and the ACT legalising marijuana and we learn it's difficult to grow in Canberra. Our heroes and villains this week include UFC Octagon girls, Todd Phillips, the Bureau of Meteorolgy and the Victorian justice system. We talk to Daisy Cousens about how Australia got involved in Trump’s impeachment story, why Trump is the greatest troll in the world, Greta Thunberg and Antifa stopping an old lady attending a Dave Rubin event (20:20-37:12). We then talk to IPA Campus Coordinator Angus Heaton about the upcoming Generation Liberty Event ‘The Great Energy Debate: Which power source is best to solve the energy crisis?’ and how his IPA connection led to an outrageous Student Council session (37.15-43:21) before major controversy in another round of Hey What Did We Miss? (43:21-50:51) At the end, we debut the new segment Won’t Someone Please Think Of The Children since Kings Cross will still have lockout laws, Angus Taylor’s all-time comeback to Clover Moore on the ‘climate emergency’ and we break down the results of the Breitbart poll on Trump.

The world has talked about one issue and one issue only this week – climate change. James and Pete react to Greta Thunberg’s speech, the climate protests around Melbourne and The Conversation banning climate scepticism from the comments. We also talk Justin Trudeau’s blackface – or according to some media outlets his ‘skin darkening makeup’ - scandal before launching into this week’s Heroes and Villains, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Boris Johnson, Victorian MPs who can’t get off social media and Launceston City Council. We speak to Gideon Rozner in front of our first ever live studio audience on the latest with Dr Peter Ridd, the IPA’s new book on climate change and preview the upcoming new show from The IPA ‘The Full Rozner’ (18:54-28:25), before Gideon and Andrew take on reigning champion Pete in another round of the quiz (28:25-34:51). We then speak to Joanne Tran, the Year 12 student who’s Daily Telegraph article on why she refused to go to the climate strike earlier this year on what has changed with last week’s rally and what she would have told the UN if she was in Greta’s shoes (34:51-41:30). At the end, we talk about confessing sins to plants, the unconscious bias training at QANTAS and Clive Palmer suing FriendlyJordies.

James and Pete have the episode you need while you navigate the traffic of the climate march. We talk that, the University of Melbourne actively encouraging students to skip class, and then why half of Australia is not welcome at the ABC – especially if they’re Jacinta Price. Our heroes and villains this week include Marianne Williamson, drinking, The Guardian and Fireman Sam. We talk to Victorian LDP politician David Limbrick MP about Fiona Patten’s new free speech bill and the big win the LDP had on nuclear energy this week (17:04-35:51). We then talk to a IPA Campus Coordinator about the University of Melbourne’s stance on climate strikes and other horror stories from uni (35:54-45:17) before they join Bella and Pete for another round of Hey…What Did We Miss – one of the biggest quizzes we’ve done so far (45:17-53:44). At the end, we introduced a new segment called "let's just wait 3 days" - the correct time wait to determine if an outrageous headline is true or not,, the city of Port Philip declaring a climate emergency…in Bangladesh, and we debate whether Joe Biden’s arch nemesis Corn Pop ever existed.

Rejoice listeners in New South Wales – the lockout laws are being repealed (probably, sort of)! James and Pete also cover the bill in Victoria which would be "18c on steroids" and the trainwreck interview where Liberal MP Gladys Liu is stumped by the tricky question of whether or not Xi Jinping is a dictator. We also recap our heroes and villains of the week including Dr Peter Ridd, Ringo Starr, Coffs Harbour City Council and the US Embassy in Zimbabwe. Pete sits down with Tim Wilson MP to talk about China, Brexit, the morality of industrial relations and why Tim’s so optimistic (15:21-35:40). We then have another round of Hey What Did We Miss - will Bella complete a hattrick of victories? (35:40-43:37) Then James and Pete talk to anti-lockout laws campaigner Jacqui Munro to talk about what’s next for Sydney’s lockouts (43:37-54:45). At the end, James and Pete cover Extinction Rebellion letting themselves down, Ms Monopoly, Trump rallies didn’t increase hate crimes by 226% and the scientist suggesting cannibalism as a method to stop climate change.

Brexit is in absolute chaos and James and Pete try to make sense of it. Finding none, we move on to the government’s exposure draft on religious discrimination and go through our heroes and villains of the week, including the world’s coolest fisherman, one of the cringiest questions ever from Q&A, UTS Engineering and Debra Messing. We talk to the IPA’s National Manager of Generation Liberty Renee Gorman about her new survey showing there is a free speech crisis at Australian universities and play Renee and Adam’s vox pop on free speech filmed at the University of Melbourne (18:07-33:00). After that is another round of Hey What Did We Miss? The YIPAP quiz with returning champ Bella squaring off against Pete and Daniel Wild. Then we talk to high school student and friend of the show Bo Sergeant about some of the stories coming out of Australian high schools recently and Bo shows us an incredible section of his politics textbook (42:19-56:03). After that we talk about the Perth vegan who took their neighbours to the Supreme Court to stop them barbequing and Prince Harry launching a sterling defence of private plane travel.

What you’re being told about Brazil isn’t true, and same for electric cars. But one thing is for certain – we should definitely be nuking hurricanes. James and Pete discuss this and share their heroes and villains for the week, including Katharine Birbalsingh, Dave Chappelle, the University of Queensland and The Economist. Rita Panahi joins the show to talk about being locked in Twitter jail, suggests the right should use the left’s playbook and tells young people they should go on cruises. James and Pete go through some more stories like the school banning rubbish bins, deepfakes and Pete’s Sky News debut where he makes them talk about cricket. We then talk to Q&A High School Special panellist Willoughby Duff about being on Q&A, what it’s like being interrupted by Tony Jones and the online reaction to him, before finishing the show with another round of Hey! What Did We Miss quiz with Pete taking on Dr Bella d’Abrera and returning champion Pat Hannaford.

Pete is back from Europe! And we’re right back in to the major stories, like if Pacific Island leaders and the UN would tell people in Bangladesh who don’t have electricity that coal is evil; Trump’s plans to buy Greenland; tell people not worry about fake Chinese police cars in Australia because the owners told the police they bought the decals of eBay because they looked cool; how the minimum wage is a morality issue; and talk about the growing crisis in Argentina. We talk to Drew Pavlou, a University of Queensland student who organised the pro-Hong Kong protests that were met with violence about his story and what it was like schooling Tony Jones on Q&A (18:18-27:04). Then we bring back Adam Schlicht who went down to the University of Melbourne to see what the students think of the Hong Kong protests around Australia (27:04-31:30). Pete and James cover a few more stories that made us laugh, including the evils of bringing Wayne Rooney back to England to play in front of adoring fans, the Byron Mayor who will save the world by turning off street lights and we have the first two ads that got banned in the UK for showing gender stereotypes. We also talk to Kirsty O’Sullivan from the Liberal Democrats about Australia banning another video game and the Nanny State in general (40:42-53:30) before finishing with another round of our new quiz Hey…What Did We Miss with Pete challenging Patrick Hannaford and returning champion Renee Gorman.

Australia is finally having a free speech inquiry but it’s more narrow than we’d like, a ban on $10,000 cash payments proves the government hasn’t heard of cryptocurrency and QANTAS abandons environmentalism now that it might hurt sales. James and Adam from So Fox discuss all that then get into Heroes and Villains of the week, including Sarah Silverman and Gwent Police saying they’ll investigate jokes. James speaks to IPA Adjunct Fellow Matthew Lesh about free speech on Australian campuses, the influence of the Confucius Centres and the response from universities to Hong Kong protests. James then speaks to Henry Spinks, a young entrepreneur who had the government shut down his chauffer business with red tape, about his story. At the end, James and Adam discuss the movie Trump got cancelled, the Green MP in the UK that forgot to include minorities in her proposal for an all-female anti-Brexit cabinet and Adam reflects on his time in Pete’s chair before James hosts another round of our new quiz Hey…What Did We Miss with Renee Gorman up against returning challenger Gideon Rozner.

It has been a huge week for the Voice to Parliament debate so James and Adam bring you the latest. The Hong Kong protests are getting scarier, but it’s all ok because Prince Harry is going to save the world at a climate change conference in Sicily. Heroes and Villains features a 79 year old lady about to go to jail for feeding cats, the right to make fun of parrots in Britain, a ban on “hip hip hooray”and the fall of Woodstock. James speaks to Alice Springs Town Councillor Jacinta Price ahead of her tour with True Arrow Events to talk about a Voice to Parliament and why she’s against it, Indigenous Recognition and what we should be talking about when we talk about Indigenous Affairs (15:16-35:31). At the end of the show, James and Adam learn why too much noise and gendered language is banned from the Democratic Socialists of America’s national conference, the MP caught playing Solitaire at work, the ATO raising the cost of beer and James debuts the new segment the YIPA Quiz "What Have We Missed?"