The Young IPA Podcast

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?"

Pete is away so he misses out on discussing all the big stories of the week with James and Adam from So Fox – like the incoming regulation of big tech, all the government agencies (including Veterinary Surgeons Boards) who are trying to get your metadata, and Labor’s attempts to keep a CPAC speaker out of Australia because they threaten “equality.” Heroes and Villains this week features a kid learning the horror of taxes through Monopoly and a councillor putting ‘carbon footprint’ over ‘human safety’. James talks to IPA Adjunct Fellow Matthew Lesh to preview Boris Johnston’s Prime Ministership, assess Theresa May’s legacy and ask whether Britain will actually leave the EU on October 31. James also speaks to Shawn, a Hong Kong protestor visiting Melbourne, about where the protests are at now, prospects for liberty and what it’s like to live in a country so divided. At the end James and Adam recap the push to cancel Quentin Tarantino, Trump trying to free A$AP Rocky, The Rock caving to the outrage mob and whether Labor MP Will Fowles kicking in a hotel door is a template for Adam when he’s a rockstar. Post-interview Shawn wished to clarify some remarks - The original case that started the extradition bill involved someone being extradited to Taiwan from Hong Kong, not the other way around. This captures the fears of Hong Kongers that they may one day be extradited to China."

All hail Boris Johnson. James and Pete are happy with the new UK Prime Minister because he will provide them with good content, talk about why super is a tax on young people, recap the latest with Dr Peter Ridd and James Cook University and tell anti-coal activists that harshly for opposing to export of Australian coal to countries like Bangladesh wants Australian coal as well as give out this week’s Heroes and Villains awards. We talk to Super Bowl winning NFL player Burgess Owens about his recent Wall St Journal article on reparations, the politicisation of sport and why he ended up at the Oakland Raiders (19:05-42:11). After that, we discuss the Extinction Rebellion protester who lives in a carbon-emitting mansion, fresh calls for a minimum price on alcohol, the anti-manspreading chair, Bernie Sanders turning out to be a hardcore capitalist and play a highlight from Gary Wolfram’s magnificent speech to Generation Liberty IPA Academy. Then for a bonus treat at the end of the show we talk to Melbourne musician Adam Schlicht from So Fox about how red tape is strangling Australia’s music industry and how censorious university lecturers inspired his song-writing (50:03-1:00:08)  

On this week's show James and Pete discuss Voice to Parliament, how Boris Johnson is going to make the Queen give speeches until Britain leaves the EU, Facebook's big fine and run through this week's heroes & villains. IPA Campus Coordinator Boston Edwards joins the show to talk strategy for storming Area 51, his path to Generation Liberty and his deep love of ABBA (17:10-26:55). Then we talk to Robby Soave, associate editor at Reason, about his new book Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump, confected outrage online and how to save journalism (28:17-51:32). We also have the anti-Israel practice exam given to students, Marianne Williamson climbing the polls, the Victorian government's plan to fix congestion with soba noodles and how the end to the cricket World Cup was diabolical.

This week James and Pete recap some bad news for vegans everywhere, a Queensland mine safety committee being disbanded due to gender imbalance and how the Democrat proposal for an increased minimum wage will cost 1.3 million jobs. New segments for the show include Grunt the Pig Freedom Medal and the Asda Award for Tyranny recapping heroes and villains of the week, and Here's A Cool Thing for the trade deal about to transform Africa and how the average person now is 4.4 times richer now than the average person in 1950. We speak to new Chairman of the IPA Janet Albrechtsen about why she's excited for the new job, why she's excited about Australia post-election, the Israel Folau saga and why there's now a new precedent for guests of the podcast (17:18-36:23). At the end of the show is another new segment I Ain't Spending Any Time On It for Ariel being black, a writer breaking up with a friend over a MAGA hat, a politician misspelling his own name on the nomination for Senate in the US, AOC getting in hot water on Twitter (again), how we'd fix Bob Brown's anti-Adani fundraiser and the freakout about smoking on Stranger Things. Sorry for the delay this week for some users, especially those through Apple Podcasts! There were technical difficulties sending out the show, hopefully it is worth the wait.

James and Pete discuss Antifa assaulting Quillette journalist Andy Ngo in Portland, Google engineering algorithms to interfere with the 2020 election, Jeremy Corbyn getting around Stormzy’s set at Glastonbury, and the disabled Grandpa fired from ASDA for sharing a Billy Connolly routine on his private facebook account. We talk to Bolt Report host Andrew Bolt about the Israel Folau case and what it means for free speech, Joffa and the only person to finish their whisky on the ‘Whisky with a Mate’ segment (18:36-46:37). We also talk to outgoing Chair of the IPA The Hon Rod Kemp who reflects on his time with the IPA, how the role has changed while he’s been Chair and why he thinks Janet Albrechtsen will "supercharge" the IPA's growth (46:40-1:00:23). At the end, James and Pete review Presidential candidate and old-school hippy Marianne Williamson’s amazing Twitter account, disagree on #ScoModi's bromance, take Glastonbury to task for not knowing what a fence is and discuss ghost civil servants in France.

This week James and Pete talk about Israel Folau’s campaign being shut down on GoFundMe, Scott Morrison’s big announcement on red tape, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency Libra, ITV banning all male comedy teams and Kyle Kashuv being kicked out of Harvard. We talk to former Howard government minister Nick Minchin about the future of sports gambling in Australia, sin taxes and what Scott Morrison needs to do to get into the pantheon of Liberal leaders (22:58-39:47). We then talk to IPA Deanna Vonic in a segment of ‘Get to know IPA Staff’ about her path to the IPA, getting in an online stoush with Clementine Ford and what it’s like working at the IPA (39:50-53:56). At the end of the show we discuss the US Presidential Candidate wanting to dissolve the federal government, John Cusack letting himself down on Twitter and gender stereotypes being banned from UK advertisements.

Bonus interview for this week! We sit down with Joffa, the most famous fan in the AFL, to talk the AFL's crackdown on fan behaviour, why it shows the divide between the politically correct elite and regular people and why he's going to send this interview to Gillon McLachlan. Subscribe to The Young IPA Podcast for all future episodes!

Now on YouTube as well! James and Pete discuss the latest on free speech at Australian universities, the AFL's crackdown on fan behaviour. the latest with the Hong Kong protests, the police being involved in the wake of Jo Brand's joke and we review if net neutrality actually did kill the internet (it didn't.) James sits down with Matt Kibbe, President of Free the People, to talk about what libertarians can do to win the moral argument, why love, life and liberty are intertwined, beer regulation and his book Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff (21:49-36:49). Then James and Pete talk to IPA Research Fellow Kurt Wallace to talk about his new report into regulatory dark matter and why housing is so unaffordable for young people. (36:50-45:54) At the end we talk about how sugar taxes don't work, Twitter suspending The Tweet Of God, the legal plight of Grunt the Pig, Noel Gallagher's comments on Brexit and Rob Reiner needs to calm down online. 

The country is finally talking about press freedom and James and Pete couldn’t be happier. Over a million people protest in Hong Kong, a new report shows that the world isn’t running out of resources and things are getting cheaper, the guy who attacked volunteers in Warringah is discovered and green activism is killing the Great Barrier Reef. James speaks to YouTube and Sky News After Dark star Daisy Cousens about the vast right wing conspiracy, her career and dealing with online trolls (18:12-36:51). He also talks to Steve Baxter from Shark Tank about the election, what it means for business and Adani (36:52-52:13). At the end of the show we talk Joe Biden's friendship bracelet, another spectator kicked out of an AFL game, choose your champion Naomi Wolf v Paul Dolan, glaciers and why Dodgeball made James the man he is today.

Bill Shorten blames corporate leviathans and a financial behemoth for losing the election – which would you rather have on your side? The Brexit Party leads the polling for the next UK general election, an Australian whistleblower faces 160 years in Prison and Twitter suspends accounts ahead of the Tiananmen Square anniversary. James talks to Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, about his career, the benefits of Trump’s tax cuts and the dangers of the trade war, the history of Wednesday Meetings and the Taxpayer Protection Pledge and why he goes to Burning Man every year (13:09-39:49). James also sits down with Daily Telegraph columnist Miranda Devine to discuss her profile with Sharri Markson on the last days of the Morrison campaign, why ScoMo was convinced from the outset he would win, why she thinks Labor lost and what she makes of the Israel Folau saga (39:52-57:55). At the end of the show we discuss the AFL fan banned for three games for yelling at an umpire, Budweiser going woke in very cringeworthy fashion, Sadiq Khan needing to chill out and the Indian politician who thought half his family didn’t vote for him.

The EU election results have come in and it’s good news for minor parties on both sides. Theresa May has resigned and Anthony Albanese is about to become ALP leader uncontested. A climate ‘die in’ rally does no one any favours and Adani might go ahead in the next few weeks. James talks with Andres Guevara from Cedice about daily life in socialist Venezuela, how he campaigns for free markets while maintaining his safety and how the country can stop from becoming a failed state (20:06-48:37). Then IPA Research Fellow Kurt Wallace joins the show to discuss his time at the Friedman Conference, who the best speakers were and what the major discussions are in the libertarian world (48:40-1:05:04).