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Like I'm A Six-Year-Old

Like I'm A Six-Year-Old

Tom Ballard

Comedian Tom Ballard sits down with interesting and passionate people to find out what they do and what they believe in. It's kind of like Kitchen Cabinet except Tom can't cook.

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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Like I'm A Six-Year-Old episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Like I'm A Six-Year-Old for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Like I'm A Six-Year-Old episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Like I'm A Six-Year-Old - 233 - Luke McGregor

233 - Luke McGregor

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06/24/21 • 71 min

Luke McGregor is a beloved Australian comedian who co-stars in the ABC series Rosehaven alongside Celia Pacquola and presents "Lukenomics" on The Weekly. He's also my very nice friend and one time we got KFC together.

A month on from his appearance on Q&A alongside (now Nationals leader) Barnaby Fucking Joyce, Luke talks to me about the frustrations of public debate, why studying economics stopped him being a Liberal voter, and the ins and outs of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).

I'm doing Dry July please help me/cancer research

If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron

Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you

My book I, Millennial: One Snowflake’s Screed Against Plague, Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else will be published in December

WE ARE ALL IN THIS will be at the Brisbane Comedy Festival in August

There’s an encore Sydney show of WE ARE ALL IN THIS on August 20th

My two shows and special filming at Chapel Off Chapel have been rescheduled to August 27th & 28th

@LukeWMcGregor

Luke's Facebook page

Luke's appearance on Q&A

Lukenomics explainer on MMT

Free online event: MMT and the Media: Taking Charge of the Narrative with Luke & Bill Mitchell

Daily Mail article on Luke's appearance on Q&A

Cause of the Week: Brightside Farm Sanctuary (brightside.org.au)

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Like I'm A Six-Year-Old - 173 - Michael West

173 - Michael West

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03/10/20 • 58 min

Michael West is a Walkley Award-winning independent journalist covering the rising power of corporations over Australian democracy. After years working for both NewsCorp and Fairfax, Michael eventually went out on his own to cover the crimes of the corporate world and how big business get away with dodgy shit and poison our politics.

Here Michael lays out his experiences in and philosophy on journalism (plus some insights into Murdoch empire), the conflicts of interest in the big business of media corporations, the state of tax avoidance and political donations in Australia and how it's very clear that the economic creed of neoliberalism and privatisation has failed.

I’m doing LIASYO live at the 2020 Melbourne Comedy Festival with special guest ANDREW FREAKING DENTON. Tickets are on sale now!

My show ENOUGH is on now the 2020 Adelaide Fringe, tickets available here

My new show GRANDILOQUENT is coming to the 2020 Brisbane Comedy Festival and the 2020 Melbourne International Comedy Festival

GRANDILOQUENT is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August, it’s on sale now

Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you

If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron

@michaelwestbiz

Michael's YouTube channel

Michael's writing at The Independent

Dirty Power: Big Coal's Network of Influence over the Coalition government by Michael West and Greenpeace

ARTICLE: Ranking Australia's billionaires as taxpayers by Michael West

ARTICLE: Australia's Top 40 Tax Dodgers 2019

ARTICLE: Liberal party received $4.1m in donations from property tycoon's company by Paul Karp, Christopher Knaus & Nick Evershed

Cause of the Week: Support Michael's site and his journalism (michaelwest.com.au)

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Like I'm A Six-Year-Old - 34 - Freya Newman

34 - Freya Newman

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10/09/15 • 48 min

It's been almost a year since a magistrate gave whistleblower Freya Newman a two-year good behaviour bond for “unauthorized access to information” under the NSW Crimes Act. Her leaking of private information about Frances Abbott, the prime minister’s daughter, receiving a $60,000 undeclared scholarship at the Whitehouse Institute, a private design school, ignited a furious public debate about privacy, privilege and the public’s right to know.

At the National Young Writer’s Festival in Newcastle, I got to sit down with Freya and asked her to reflect on exactly how it all happened, what it’s like to be in the centre of a media shitstorm, the failings of the media’s handling of the issue, gaps in the law and whether or not she holds any regrets about the whole episode.

RJ Mitte event at the Athenaeum Theatre

My shows at the Republic Bar in Hobart, Fresh Comedy in Launceston

Rally for Refugees this Sunday October 11th

@freyanewmn

Article on Freya: The Whistleblower

Cause of the Week: Students Support The Aboriginal Communities (on FB), Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation (dumbartungaboriginalcorporation.org), Kyol Blakeney for Cleo Bachelor of the Year

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Like I'm A Six-Year-Old - 47 - Fiona Patten

47 - Fiona Patten

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01/12/16 • 62 min

Fiona Patten is a former lobbyist for the sex industry, she's the founder and leader of the Australian Sex Party and she was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council in 2014 as the member for the Northern Metropolitan Region.

Fiona is passionate about civil liberties and honest conversations about everything from sex to drugs to voluntary euthanasia. We had a great ol' time talking and laughing about sex work (and her personal experience with it), porn, the history of Fyshwick, abortion clinic buffer zones and more.

Midsumma Hypothetical - 2022: A Queer Odyssey

The World Keeps Happening at Perth Fringeworld

Boundless Plains To Share at MICF

@fionapattenMLC

fionapatten.com

sexparty.org.au

Guardian profile on Fiona

Cause of the Week: Harm Reduction Victoria (hrvic.org.au)

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Like I'm A Six-Year-Old - 15 - Helen Razer (Part One)

15 - Helen Razer (Part One)

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04/28/15 • 64 min

Helen Razer is a writer, a broadcaster and a gardener who doesn’t fuck around. Presenting alongside Mikey Robbins on breakfast and Judith Lucy on drive, she was a defining voice on triple j throughout the 1990s thanks to her wit, her vocabulary and her distaste for bullshit.

Since her time on the radio, Helen has forged a reputation as a ruthless and incisive opinion writer, appearing in The Big Issue, The Saturday Paper, Crikey, The Guardian and elsewhere. She very kindly had me over to her place for lunch and to talk about her latest book on the quality of public debate and the spectre of “Stupid”.

In this first part of our chat, we discuss comedy, the value and purpose of university learning, feminism, killing liberalism, capitalism, marriage equality and the “banality of good”.

@HelenRazer

badhostess.com

A Short History of Stupid by Helen Razer & Bernard Keane

Helen’s writing for Crikey

Details for my show Taxis & Rainbows & Hatred at the Sydney & Perth Comedy Festivals

Cause of the Week: The ABC’s Appeal for the Nepalese Earthquake (abc.net.au/appeals)

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Like I'm A Six-Year-Old - 38 - Peter Reith

38 - Peter Reith

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11/17/15 • 70 min

Peter Reith was a member of John Howard's cabinet from 1996 to 2001. He served as Minister for Small Business, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and the Minister for Defence. He's perhaps best known for formulating the GST policy and his roles in the 1998 waterfront dispute and the "children overboard" scandal.

Peter's just released The Reith Papers, an annotated collection of his diary entries during his time in government. Here we got to discuss (and occasionally lock horns over) the notion of humanising politicians, the recent Paris attacks, military action in the Middle East, Australia's approach to processing refugees and the role of unions in today's society.

Me in conversation with Darren Hanlon for MyTunes at Giant Dwarf Theatre

A Very Canberra Comedy Festival Christmas

peterreith.com.au

@peter_reith

The Reith Papers available from Melbourne University Press

Peter on The Verdict

Peter on ABC News Breakfast with Virginia Trioli

Cause of the Week: Enterprise Victoria (enterprisevictoria.com.au), the French Red Cross (soutenir.croix-rouge.fr)

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Like I'm A Six-Year-Old - 80 - Nur Warsame

80 - Nur Warsame

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11/08/16 • 56 min

Nur Warsame is Australia's first openly gay imam.

Yep.

He's an incredible man with a fascinating story that I think is really important to hear. If you're like me and want to call out and stand up against any religious bigotry towards queer people BUT you also don't want to pile on to the current shitstorm of Islamophobia that's swirling around this country at the moment, there's a lot to be learnt here from Nur. Here we discuss his journey to coming out publicly, what that decision has cost him, how he reconciles his faith with his sexuality and how we can have better conversations about critiquing Islam and certain oppressive cultural attitudes.

The World Keeps Happening is being filmed for Stan at the Comedy Theatre on Saturday December 3rd

Boundless Plains To Share at Belvoir Theatre in January 2017

Boundless Plains to Share at Adelaide Fringe in February 2017

Meet Australia's First Openly Gay Imam on SBS's The Feed

Article: Nur Warsame: Australia's First Openly Gay Imam

Article: The secret mosques opening their doors to LGBTI Muslims

Nur on SBS's Insight: How Do People Make High Stakes Decisions?

Fields of Blood: Religion & The History of Violence by Karen Armstrong

Article: New national snapshot finds 60% of Australians would be concerned if a relative married a Muslim

Article: Half of all British Muslims think homosexuality should be illegal, poll finds

Cause of the Week: Marhaba (@marhaba_Melb)

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Like I'm A Six-Year-Old - 45 - James Fry

45 - James Fry

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12/30/15 • 54 min

James Fry is a writer whose debut novel, That Fry Boy, tells the story of his journey from a normal happy childhood to a violent white supremacist (and back again).

James kindly shared his story with me and we discuss what lessons it might hold for the current conversation about the radicalisation of young men by Muslim extremists.

Boundless Plains To Share at MICF 2016

The World Keeps Happening at Perth Fringeworld

My mailing list

jamesfry.com.au

@thatfryboy

That Fry Boy

James on Q&A

Waleed Aly's editorial, ISIS Is Weak

Cause of the Week: Medicine Sans Frontier (msf.org.au)

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Like I'm A Six-Year-Old - 243 - Professor Megan Davis

243 - Professor Megan Davis

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11/07/21 • 66 min

Professor Megan Davis is a Cobble Cobble woman from Queensland and is the current pro Vice-Chancellor and Balnaves Chair in constitutional law at the University of New South Wales. She's worked for the United Nations and has been intimately involved in the campaign for meaningful constitutional recognition for Australia's First Nations people, and had the honour of first reading out the Uluru Statement From the Heart publicly in 2017.

Four years on from the creation of the Statement - with its call for Voice, Treaty & Truth - Megan updates me on where the campaign for a constitutional First Nations Voice to Parliament is at, the roadblocks that remain, designing a model and searching for bipartisanship ahead of a possible referendum.

Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you

If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron

I’m recording a stand up special at Chapel Off Chapel in early December

I’m doing Easey Comedy in Collingwood on Thursday November 11th with Dave Hughes

@mdavisqlder

ARTICLE: The Uluru Statement, four years on by Professor Megan Davis

INTERVIEW: The Uluru Statement - where to from here? on ABC Overnights with Rod Quinn

ARTICLE: Police officer not guilty of murdering woman during confrontation on Geraldton street (ABC NEWS)

Cause of the Week: Uluru Statement From The Heart Campaign (ulurustatement.org)

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Like I'm A Six-Year-Old - 174 - Osman Faruqi (Returns)

174 - Osman Faruqi (Returns)

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03/17/20 • 70 min

Welp. Gosh. Here we are, then. I hope you're doing okay.

Amidst the chaos of the global Coronavirus pandemic, previous LIASYO guest Osman Faruqi joins me (via Skype) to reflect on what the hell is happening. Osman is a journalist is the editor of The 7am Podcast for Schwartz Media and has been tweeting and writing a lot about the unfolding situation.

Here we discuss the most egregious examples of capital exploiting this crisis and the insane contradictions about this economic system it exposes, the Australian government's shitty response and how much needs to change in our society to make sure this kind of thing can never happen again.

It was a slightly depressing but very cathartic conversation and I hope it gives you some comfort and ferments your (justifiable) rage towards those in power in these wild times.

My show GRANDILOQUENT has been cancelled at the Brisbane and Melbourne Comedy Festivals: all tickets will be refunded in full

The show's season at the Belvoir Theatre in Sydney in June and at the 2020 Edinburgh Fringe Festival are, at this stage, still going ahead

The live instalment of LIASYO with Andrew Denton at MICF has also been cancelled :(

Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you

If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron

@oz_f

7ampodcast.com.au

ilostmygig.net.au

ARTICLE: Should I keep my children home from school due to Coronavirus? (ABC)

ARTICLE: Super-rich jet off to disaster bunkers amid Coronavirus outbreak by Rupert Neate

UNICEF's Coronavirus Appeal

Cause of the Week: Support Act (supportact.org.au)

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How many episodes does Like I'm A Six-Year-Old have?

Like I'm A Six-Year-Old currently has 265 episodes available.

What topics does Like I'm A Six-Year-Old cover?

The podcast is about News, Comedy, Podcasts and Politics.

What is the most popular episode on Like I'm A Six-Year-Old?

The episode title '233 - Luke McGregor' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Like I'm A Six-Year-Old?

The average episode length on Like I'm A Six-Year-Old is 63 minutes.

How often are episodes of Like I'm A Six-Year-Old released?

Episodes of Like I'm A Six-Year-Old are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Like I'm A Six-Year-Old?

The first episode of Like I'm A Six-Year-Old was released on Jan 18, 2015.

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