Best Josh McKenzie Podcasts (2025)

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LIVE PANEL: "Who Really Influences Our Politicians?" with Senators Bridget McKenzie & David Pocock, and MP's Allegra Spender & Helen Haines 51:08

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What happens when you put politicians in a room and ask them to talk honestly about who really influences their decisions? This bonus episode is a live recording from a one-of-a-kind gala in Canberra dreamed up by social-media firebrand (and friend of the show) Punters Politics. Instead of corporations buying access to ministers, everyday Australia…

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John Lloyd, Valene Kane, Kit Green, Luvcat, Jessica Swale 37:10

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What's a Kentucky? Comedy legend John Lloyd is here to reveal all, in honour of the 42nd anniversary of his cult dictionary 'The Meaning of Liff', co-written with the much missed Douglas Adams, Jessica Swale is the writer behind the new Paddington musical and she tells us about her emotional first meeting with the bear. Jessica Valene stars as a wo…

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Derek Thompson on why everything is becoming television, and whether democracy can survive it 51:01

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Is television the final form of all media? Derek Thompson, the co-author of Abundance, podcaster, and Atlantic writer joins Mixed Signals to explain what he sees as the forces behind what Ben and Max keep observing: The way in which podcasts and other forms of journalism appear to be getting their largest audience in an endless, passive feed of vid…

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“The New Race to the Moon: China, MAGA, SpaceX & Mars” with Jeffrey Kluger 37:40

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President Trump has nominated a billionaire to be the new head of NASA as the United States gears up for its most ambitious mission in decades: a return to the Moon. This time, the adversary to beat isn’t the Soviets, but China. And the players at the heart of the new space race are no longer just nation-states but private companies. Who are these …

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Episode 305: Key Largo with McKenzie Wilkes 2:06:40

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On our second Noirvember Episode, Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and McKenzie Wilkes talk about John Huston's 1948 Crime Drama Key Largo Starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Edward G. Robinson It was Bogart and Bacall's fourth and final film together. WW2 Veteran Frank McCloud goes to Key Largo to pay his respects to the family of a…

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Ep 058: Last Group of Five Fixed Blade Broadheads for Test #2: G5 M3 Montec, Grim Reaper Micro Hades Pro, Magnus Black Hornet, QAD Exodus, and the VPA Omega 37:15

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On this episode, I sit down and talk about the last group of five fixed blade broadheads that make up the ten that I will be testing in my next Fixed Blade Broadhead Test #2. The heads I talk about this week are the G5 M3 Montec, Grim Reaper Micro Hades Pro, Magnus Black Hornet, QAD Exodus, and the VPA (Vantage Point Archery) Omega. Check out last …

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JUST JOSH: Dissecting Tucker Carlson 2:21:03

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American conservatives are in a tizzy of in-fighting after one of their leading voices, Tucker Carlson, hosted a genial chat with a Holocaust-denying, Hitler-admiring, 27-year-old white-nationalist influencer, Nick Fuentes. Should your local upstanding conservative disavow King Tuck? Or is Tucker's aww-shucks, just-askin'-questions schtick too valu…

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Skankfest LIVE 2024 w/ Sam Tallent, Colum Tyrrell & Ryan O'Neill | You Be Trippin with Ari Shaffir 2:06:50

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Follow Ryan on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/ryanoneillcomedy/ Follow Sam on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/samtallent/ Follow Colum on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/columtyrrell/ SPONSORS: -Take advantage of Ridge’s Biggest Sale of the Year and GET UP TO 47% Off by going to https://www.Ridge.com/ARI #Ridgepod -Si…

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John Cleese, Sue Perkins, Clive Anderson, Judi Love, Tom Smith, Hugh Dennis, Natalie Duncan Trio 35:57

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Clive Anderson is joined by a giggle of comics or should that be a brace of jokers in the Loose Ends studio this week. Fawlty Towers creator John Cleese recalls being told his nascent sitcom - 50 years old this year - would fail if they didn't "get it out of the hotel more". Sue Perkins describes the urge to get out on a stand up tour again after a…

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GQ Editor Will Welch on masculinity, celebrities, and staying cool as he ages 44:26

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Will Welch is the global editorial director of GQ, and has been the editor-in-chief of its US operation since 2019. On this week’s Mixed Signals, Welch talks to Ben and Max about how the magazine plans to address men amid the prominence of the manosphere, the value in covering niche subcultures, and how the parties thrown by the magazine operate as…

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“Being a Satirist in Censorious Times” with cartoonist Jason Chatfield 42:42

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Zohran Mamdani has just been elected mayor of New York, parachuting onto a political terrain more polarised and energised than it's been since the 1960s. How do you maintain an independent satirical voice in such vitriolic times? Joining Josh from NYC on a Substack Livestream the day after the mayoral election is Jason Chatfield, one of the world’s…

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Episode 304: Mildred Pierce 2:05:34

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Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes talk about Michael Curtiz's 1945 psychological drama Mildred Pierce. Starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, and Zachary Scott Based on James M. Cain's 1941 novel, a story of “social inequity and opportunity in America" set during the Great Depression. The 1945 Michael Curtiz's film turns the novel into a sto…

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Ep 057: Fixed Blade Broadhead Pre Test: Day Six Evo | Evolution Jekyll Wide | Muzzy Trocar Ti | Lone Wolf Arrowheads 3 Blade | Annihilator Katana 39:36

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On this episode, I talk about the first five broadheads that I chose to feature in my Fixed Blade Broadhead Test #2 coming later this year 2025. I went with the Day Six Evo, Evolution Outdoors Jekyll Wide, Muzzy Trocar Ti, Lone Wolf Broadheads 3 Blade, and the Annihilator Katana 125. Stay tuned next week for the second group of five to round out th…

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“The Climate Change Solution So Crazy it Just Might Work” with Quico Toro 1:28:21

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The conversation around climate change is so predictable. It's either depressing doom, science denialism, or ambitious summits that don't achieve much. Can't anyone think outside the box? Quico Toro does. He's the Director of Climate Repair at the Anthropocene Institute, a former journalist who's written for the New York Times, Washington Post and …

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Traveling with Kids w/ Luis J Gomez | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir 1:58:51

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Danny Robins, Garth Marenghi, Rebecca Lucy Taylor, Donna Thompson, The New Eves 35:18

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It's a particulary spooky edition of Loose Ends as we're joined by Danny Robins - host of Uncanny and writer of 2.22 a Ghost Story and cult horror author Garth Marenghi. But which of them is the real king of horror? Rebecca Lucy Taylor, AKA Self Esteem brings us her literary debut, A Complicated Woman and there's music from The New Eves with a song…

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Episode 303: Weapons 2:15:41

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Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes talk about Zach Cregger's Weapons After Zach Cregger's last film Barbarian in 2022, Weapons is a supernatural horror film about a town where 17 children in the same 3rd grade class suddenly go missing. Starring Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Benedict Wong, Austin Abrams, Amy Madigan #weapons2…

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Ken Burns on the future of PBS, the new age of media, and why documentaries will outlast TikTok 44:03

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Ken Burns has been telling the story of America through his entire career with genre-defining documentaries on the Civil War, the Vietnam War, and now the American Revolution. This week, Ben and Max bring on the renowned documentarian to talk about his latest series, the parallels he sees between America’s founding moment and today’s media environm…

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"Public Shaming" with Clare Stephens 46:48

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Pile-ons, performative outrage, apology rituals, and public humiliation have become a blood sport over the past decade. What happened? Was it a moral panic? A byproduct of new communications technologies? Or a storm in a teacup - a well-intentioned overreach, exaggerated by anti-woke right-wingers? Clare Stephens is a feminist journalist who has sp…

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Episode 302: The Love Witch with Josh Duggan 1:37:18

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Forrest, Kristina Oakes and Josh Duggan talk about Anna Biller's horror comedy the Love Witch Written, Directed, Produced, and even Scored by Anna Biller, a Feminist Filmmaker raised by a Fashion Designer mother and Visual Artist father. The Love Witch satirizes the fact that most horror/supernatural/thriller in fact most cinema in general is filme…

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Ep 056: Kyle Sinclair-Smith | Bowhunting, Archery, Guiding and Family 1:21:06

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On this episode, I sit down with Kyle Sinclair-Smith. Kyle is an extremely talented 3d Archer, Bowhunter, Hunting Guide, and family man. We discuss how Kyle was introduced to hunting, his guiding career beinging at 18 years of age, epic hunting experiences, family time and everything in between. You can follow Kyle on Instagram: https://www.instagr…

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"Trans Rights, Women's Rights, Gay Rights, Oh My!” with Professor Robert Wintemute 1:17:22

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What happens when the fight for women's equality collides with transgender rights? Is the anti-trans nastiness of the Elon MAGA-verse now winning? Or is it mere chaff in a new legal regime that privileges gender identity over feminism and gay rights? Where are we, exactly, in the gender wars? The question of who counts as a woman, once banal, is no…

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Mongolia w/ Tom Rhodes | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir 1:56:26

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Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden; Jake Arnott; Kerry Godliman; India Knight; Kiri Pritchard-McLean 36:26

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Kiri Pritchard-McLean loves a bit of crime - so much so that she hosts a podcast about serial killers. So she's right at home on Loose Ends this week talking cosy crime and laminating machines with actor and comedian Kerry Godliman, who stars as the charming private detective and oyster-shucking restaurateur Pearl Nolan in TV drama Whitstable Pearl…

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The inside story of Sydney Sweeney's 'Great Jeans' — and why American Eagle ignored crisis comms 42:26

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American Eagle’s summer campaign with Sydney Sweeney blew up in ways no one could’ve imagined – but chief marketing officer, Craig Brommers, knew they were going to hit a cultural nerve. This week, Ben and Max bring on the AE CMO to give us an inside look into the “Great Jeans” campaign, what he made of the controversy that surrounded it, and how D…

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"Mindfulness, Science, Buddhism & Bullsh*t"? with Mo Edjlali 23:43

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You know you should meditate. But you don't have the time. Or you're no good at it. So you occasionally subscribe to a meditation app, you listen to podcast episodes about mindfulness, you nod along sagely about the importance of living in the Now, and you get back to your busy life. It doesn't stick. That's been Josh's story for decades. So when h…

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Bonus Episode: A Bartender’s Journey From San Jose To The Gran Coramino Cup Featuring Joewell McKenzie 34:21

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Send us a text We pull up with Gran Coramino Cup Champion Joel McKenzie, tracing his come-up from a gatekept bar scene in San Jose to standing tall on a national stage. This conversation is a masterclass in perseverance, purpose, and pouring from the soul. Joel keeps it all the way real about navigating the early days, finding mentorship and brothe…

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Episode 301: Kiki's Delivery Service with Alex Haha 1:29:36

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On October 21st, Forrest and Kristina will be joined by AlexHaha @devilsadvocateproductions to talk about Hayao Miyazaki's Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) One of the earliest Studio Ghibli films after My Neighbor Totoro just 4 years after Ghibli was founded. Based on the book Witch's Express Home Delivery by Eiko Kadono Miyazaki made a whole lot of …

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Ep 055: Dave from Hellcat Outdoors | 2025 Moose Hunt 1:23:54

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On this episode, I sit down with Dave from Hellcat Outdoors. Dave is an avid Ontario Bowhunter who is normally in the whitetail and black bear woods like clockwork, but had the opportunity to go on a 2025 moose hunt, which turned into a huge success. Dave talks about the incredible encounters he had with multiple bull moose and lived to tell the ta…

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“What’s Comedy For, Anymore?” with Wil Anderson 2:04:44

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The Saudi stand-up controversy, the Jimmy Kimmel brouhaha, the clickification of live shows into viral video clips, the clash of podcasters like Marc Maron vs Joe Rogan over Trumpism... What is comedy for in this algorithmic era of culture wars? Wil Anderson is perhaps Australia's most successful stand-up comic. As well as his countless sold-out li…