310: Josh Szeps: Why I had to escape the mainstream media

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Josh Szeps – former ABC broadcaster and host of the
Uncomfortable Conversations podcast – joined Brendan O’Neill on this week’s episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. Josh discusses his break from the mainstream media, how diversity quotas breed conformity and the lost art of talking across the divide.

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.
0:05.8	Oh yeah.
0:06.6	Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticcy,
0:15.2	autobiographies, true crime, and more.
0:19.3	Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their flight.
0:23.4	Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible. No way. Download the Amazon Music app now to start listening.
0:29.2	Terms apply.
0:33.8	The echo chamber is affecting us all.
0:40.2	It's affecting us in the heterodox space.
0:42.0	It's affecting us on the right.
0:43.2	It's affecting us in whatever community we're in.
0:45.2	It's affecting me.
0:46.2	I mean, I have to spend every day working hard, I know, to not be inside an echo chamber.
0:52.9	We look at our phones and we think that we're looking through a window onto the world,
0:57.1	but it's actually a mirror that's just reflecting back our own biases and preconceptions.
1:02.0	The job of our life, the job of our generation is to find a way through the madness of algorithms
1:09.2	and the madness of crowds and coming out with, you know,
1:11.9	our heads screwed on.
1:16.1	Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill Show with me, Brendan O'Neill, and my special guest
1:20.6	this week, Josh Zeps.
1:22.1	Josh, welcome to the show.
1:23.5	So lovely to be here.
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