After the longest break from live shows in Dum Dum history we are BACK, LIVE in Melbourne to a sold-out crowd with PETER HELLIAR, TOM BALLARD and NICK CAPPER! Tommy’s got a prop to make himself feel more comfortable, Karl’s wearing all of his lockdown purchases, Pete has a new support act, Capper’s eaten a pizza and Tom gets bullied. PLUS given that it’s a live show, there’s shots being done onstage and people in the crowd yelling at us. God, it’s good to be back!
It’s the final ep for 2020! Thank heavens etc.
JR Hennessy is a Sydney-based writer whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Monthly and The Outline. He’s the current editor for Business Insider Australia and he is smart and funny.
I wanted to take to James about his thoughts on the wonders of 2020 and what (if anything) we can take from it. We discuss it all: people who consider politicians and health experts their friends, winning fights on the computer, “experts”, OnlyFans, “dropshipping”, logging off, whether the Millennial socialism moment is over and finding some hope for the Left in a post-COVID world.
Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays/It’s Over, everyone.
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I’m performing at the Corner Hotel tonight (Tuesday) alongside Dilruk Jayasinha and Lehmo
I’m coming to Brunswick Heads for a bunch of shows with Sam Taunton & Nikki Britton in January
ARTICLE: Who the hell cares what old people think about climate change?
ARTICLE: World will be the same but worse after banal virus says Houellebecq
Cause of the Week: Foodbank (foodbank.org.au)
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Simon Copland is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the Australian National University (ANU) who is currently studying the online “manosphere” on Reddit. He’s written for the BBC, The Guardian, Fairfax and News Corp. and he co-hosted the Queers podcast with Benjamin Riley.
Here Simon lays out what the “manosphere” is and why it exists. We discuss incel violence, male alienation, Jordan Peterson, the material conditions that leads to this stuff and the challenges of trying to understand it. Scrubbing the internet clean of these ideas clearly isn’t working and neither is joking about killing all men; so what’s the alternative?
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I was on the “What’s Left?” podcast with Aimee Terese & Oliver Bateman
I’m coming to Brunswick Heads for a bunch of shows with Sam Taunton & Nikki Britton in January
ARTICLE: What are we talking about when we talk about a crisis in masculinity? by Simon Copland
Simon’s review of the politics of Joker
Cause of the Week: MensLine Australia (mensline.org.au)
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It’s a great and challenging show and I was honoured to be asked to chat to them about Australian politics, race, comedy and “doing the work”.
Ed Miller is the Economic Fairness Campaigns Director at the progressive activist group GetUp!.
I wanted to chat to Ed about where GetUp! is at these days; the attacks being made on it by the Murdoch media, its recent wins and failures and its more explicitly anti-capitalist campaigning that I’ve been noticing recently. We discuss the way GetUp! works, why conservatives hate it, the power of its members and why Australian politics’ obsession with “debt and deficits” has limited our political imagination.
We also had a (quick) crack at discussing Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and why it matters.
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I’m performing at Melbourne’s excellent Comedy Republic this Thursday and Friday
I’m coming to Brunswick Heads for a bunch of shows with Sam Taunton & Nikki Britton in January
My 100th episode with GetUp! director Paul Oosting from 2017
The People’s Recovery – GetUp!’s policy vision
The Australian editorial: Every dollar you donate to GetUp! is a waste of money
ARTICLE: GetUp!’s MMT push in Australia “fraught with danger”
ARTICLE: Captain GetUp: conservative group’s satirical superhero debuts to ridicule
A piece from MMT economists on inflation in the FT
A video explainer on the basics of MMT
Ed’s interview with MMT economist Stephanie Kelton for GetUp!’s Future to Fight For podcast
Cause of the Week: Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network (seedmob.org.au)
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The long awaited return of Easey Comedy is here!
Streaming to you LIVE from our Collingwood theatre into living rooms across Australia and the Universe. Come get reacquainted with live comedy, catch up with your favourites and discover your new comedy crushes. It’s like a weekly comedy gala in your lounge room!If you fancy watching in real life you can purchase tickets to be in our limited live audience.
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THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER – LINEUP
Host: Tom Ballard
+ Lano & Woodley
+ Nick Cody
+ Annie Louey
+ Michelle BrasierSuitable for ages 16+.
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While we do our best to keep lineups as programmed once announced they may be subject to change.
Jess Scully is the Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney as part of “Team Clover”. This year she released her debut book Glimpses of Utopia: Real Ideas for a Fairer World, which draws on her own experience and actual examples from all over the world on how people are doing politics, democracy, work and environmental action differently.
Jess is a delightful, passionate and optimistic person who inspired me to shake out of my current cynical, black pill-ed view of the world (as Jess says, under neoliberalism, “We have internalised the impossibility of change”). We discussed why it’s worth thinking about utopia and how we can get there, citizens’ juries, workers’ co-ops, the financialised economy and how the alternative ways of organising society are already playing out in the world right now.
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Glimpses Of Utopia: Real ideas for a Fairer World by Jess Scully is out now through Pantera Press
Cause of the Week: The Asylum Seekers Centre’s “Open The Door To Hope” Appeal
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This is my conversation with a group of young climate leaders as part of a panel organised by the Foundation for Young Australians, Youth Action NSW and the team behind the Youth On Strike! documentary.
It was a fierce and inspiring chat about about where young people’s call for climate action goes to from here in a post-COVID Australia and touched on activism, First Nations justice and youth representation. It was a pleasure to moderate; I hope you enjoy listening to it.
The panel featured:
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The Foundation for Young Australians
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