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My podcast is an extension of my curiosity. I choose a guest with important (and, ideally, underrated) ideas. I research as much as possible. And I ask the burning questions that excite me most. The result is less a performance and more a conversation between two friends, a chat which you get to eavesdrop on.

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Peter Tulip — What Will It Actually Take to Solve the Housing Crisis? [Aus. Policy Series]

Australia's unaffordable housing market is the defining social policy disaster of this moment. But what's causing it, and how do we fix it?

March 26, 2025

Judith Brett — How a Benthamite Political Culture Shaped Australia's Electoral System [Aus. Policy Series]

Australia stands alone among English-speaking democracies with its compulsory, preferential voting system. But why?

March 14, 2025

Richard Holden & Steven Hamilton — How Australia Gets It Done [Aus. Policy Series]

Australians, it has been said, have a "characteristic talent for bureaucracy". What explains our high level of state capacity?

March 05, 2025

Andrew Leigh — Inequality and Egalitarianism [Aus. Policy Series]

Is inequality rising? What's driving it? And does it even matter? We discuss all this and more with economist and politician Andrew Leigh.

February 14, 2025

Abul Rizvi — Inside Immigration Policy [Aus. Policy Series]

Immigration has become one of the most contentious policy issues across the Anglosphere. But how does it actually work in the Australian context?

February 01, 2025

Behind the Scenes of My Interview Research Process — Andy Matuschak Crashes My Crib (#162)

How do I prepare for podcast interviews? Why so much preparation? What is the broader project of the podcast? Andy Matuschak crashes my crib to find out more.

January 25, 2025

Eugene Fama — For Whom is the Market Efficient? (#161)

Gene Fama is famous for his work on the efficient markets hypothesis. How does he reflect on his work today?

December 31, 2024

Richard Butler — Nuclear Diplomacy at the End of History (#160)

Richard Butler is a retired Australian diplomat who helped establish the framework through which we still manage nuclear weapons risks today.

November 30, 2024

Larry Summers — AGI and the Next Industrial Revolution (#159)

Could AI initiate a new, much faster economic growth regime, akin to the Industrial Revolution?

October 22, 2024

Nassim Taleb — Meditations on Extremistan (#158)

Nassim Taleb is trader, researcher and essayist. He is the author of the Incerto, a multi-volume philosophical and practical meditation on uncertainty.

September 20, 2024

Robert Boyd & Peter Richerson — How Ice Age Climate Chaos Made Humans Cultural Animals (#157)

For the last one to two million years, the main force shaping the human lineage has not been natural selection, but the culture we've accumulated. Why us?

August 14, 2024

Lucy Turnbull — Urbanism, YIMBYism, and Solutions to Australia's Housing Crisis (#156: Bonus Live Episode)

How can we make our cities more productive? What will it take to build more homes in Australia? Why might the YIMBY movement fail? And is Sydney better than Melbourne?

May 31, 2024

Bryan Caplan — The Economics of Housing Abundance (#155)

Why does housing cost so much? And could building more homes be the solution to many of society's problems?

May 14, 2024

2023 Retrospective — A Listener Interviews Me

In this special episode, the tables are turned as I'm interviewed by a listener of the show, DJ Thornton.

December 30, 2023

David Deutsch & Steven Pinker (First Ever Public Dialogue) — AGI, P(Doom), and The Enemies of Progress (#153)

With the Enlightenment under attack from multiple sides, two rational optimists come together for their first ever public dialogue.

December 20, 2023

Shruti Rajagopalan — On Spotting Talent, And Making Sense of Rising India (#152)

How to understand a country as complex and heterogeneous as India? And how does Shruti think about identifying Indian talent?

November 29, 2023

Raghuram Rajan — Debt, Monetary Policy, and Unintended Consequences (#151)

What were the deep causes of the global financial crisis? Has unconventional monetary policy worked? And should monetary policy target financial stability?

November 02, 2023

Peter Singer — Moral Truths and Moral Secrets (#150)

Are there objective moral truths? Is Peter Singer a Straussian? And why does Australia have a higher proportion of utilitarian philosophers than other countries?

September 20, 2023

Peter Turchin — Why Societies Fall Apart (And Why the US May Be Next) (#149)

Can we have a science of history? And if we can, what does it tell us about the American trajectory?

September 01, 2023

Stephen Wolfram — Constructing the Computational Paradigm (#148)

Stephen Wolfram was a physics prodigy. But he's also built massively valuable companies and projects. What are the secrets of Wolfram the entrepreneur?

August 19, 2023

Katalin Karikó — Forging the mRNA Revolution (#147)

Katalin Karikó is a Hungarian-American biochemist. She is one of the inventors of mRNA technology.

August 02, 2023

Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb (#146)

Richard Rhodes is an American historian and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

July 26, 2023

Ken Henry — An Economic Odyssey (#145)

Dr Ken Henry is an Australian economist who served as Secretary of the Australian Department of Treasury from 2001 to 2011.

May 10, 2023

Palmer Luckey — Science (Non)fiction (#144)

Palmer Luckey ("the real-life Tony Stark") is an American tech entrepreneur and billionaire. He has founded two companies: Oculus VR and defence-tech company Anduril.

April 26, 2023

Daniel Kahneman — Dyads, And Other Mysteries (#143)

Daniel Kahneman is the most influential living psychologist. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 and is the author of Thinking, Fast and Slow.

April 14, 2023

Talent Is That Which Is Scarce — Tyler Cowen (#142)

In the long run, talent allocation is almost everything. But as a society, we're not actually very good at

December 31, 2022

Intellectual Exoskeletons — Andy Matuschak (#141)

From language and writing to the Hindu-Arabic numeral system, computers and Adobe Photoshop, our species has a history of inventing tools

December 24, 2022

Rationality And Its Opposite — Steven Pinker (#140)

How rational are we? How can a species smart enough to set foot on the moon also be prone to conspiracy

December 15, 2022

Against Bayesianism — David Deutsch (#139)

Bayesianism, the doctrine that it's always rational to represent our beliefs in terms of probabilities, dominates the intellectual world,

April 25, 2022

The Lessons Of Afghanistan — William Dalrymple (#138)

William Dalrymple is an acclaimed historian and writer.

October 02, 2021

The Race That Stopped The Nation — Richard Holden & Steven Hamilton (#137)

Richard Holden is Professor of Economics at UNSW. Steven Hamilton is an Assistant Professor of Economics at The George Washington University.

August 30, 2021

#136: Ergodicity — Ole Peters

Ole Peters is a physicist and a Fellow at the London Mathematical Laboratory.

August 24, 2021

#135: The Tyranny Of Merit — Michael Sandel

Michael Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University, where he is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government

June 23, 2021

#134: The Spectre Of Havoc — Graham Allison

Graham Allison is an American political scientist and the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author

June 14, 2021

#133: A General Theory Of Catastrophe – Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is one of the world’s most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover

June 07, 2021

#132: Policy In An Age Of Politics – John Hewson

John Hewson is a former Australian politician and was leader of the Liberal Party from 1990 to 1994. Read the full

May 24, 2021

#131: A Practical Guide To Coping With Uncertainty – John Kay

John Kay is one of Britain’s leading economists. Read the full transcript [Transcript coming soon.]

May 17, 2021

#130: Is Science Reaching Its Limits? – John Horgan

John Horgan is a science journalist and Director of the Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken,

May 10, 2021

#129: Marvellous Melbourne And Australia's Darkest Depression – Graeme Davison

Graeme Davison is Australia’s most eminent urban historian. Read the full transcript [Transcript coming soon.]

May 04, 2021

#128: A Forgotten Genius – Cheryl Misak

Cheryl Misak is a Canadian philosopher and the author of Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers. Read the full transcript

April 28, 2021

#127: Progress And Planet – Malcolm Turnbull

Malcolm Turnbull was the 29th Prime Minister of Australia. Read the full transcript [Transcript coming soon.]

April 12, 2021

#126: The Craft Of Comedy And The Art Of A Lasting Partnership – Andy Lee

Andy Lee is one half of iconic Australian comedy duo Hamish & Andy. Read the full transcript [Transcript coming soon.]

March 29, 2021

#125: The Reign Of Keynes, Part II – Lord Robert Skidelsky

Robert Skidelsky, FBA is a British economic historian. He is the author of a three-volume award-winning biography of British economist John

March 22, 2021

#124: Recollections Of A Wild Man In The Wings – Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is the father of modern linguistics and one of the most cited scholars in modern history. He is also

March 17, 2021

#123: There Is Such A Thing As Society – Sir Paul Collier

Sir Paul Collier is a British development economist. He is currently a professor of economics at the University of Oxford and

March 08, 2021

#122: The Reign Of Keynes, Part I – Zach Carter

Zach Carter is a senior reporter at The Huffington Post and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Price

March 01, 2021

#121: The Doyen Of Behavioural Genetics On Untangling Nature And Nurture – Robert Plomin

Robert Plomin is one of the world’s leading behavioural geneticists. He is currently MRC Research Professor in Behavioural Genetics at

February 22, 2021

#120: The Republic Is In Peril – Jack A. Goldstone

Jack A. Goldstone is an American sociologist and the Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr. Chair Professor of Public Policy

February 16, 2021

#119: Hard–Earned Lessons From A Maverick Who Made It – Mark Cuban

Transcript JOE WALKER: Mark Cuban, welcome to The Jolly Swagman Podcast. MARK CUBAN: Thanks for having me on The Jolly Swagman

February 08, 2021

#118: The Wisdom Of Frank Wilczek

Frank Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004. Read the full transcript [TRANSCRIPT COMING SOON]

February 01, 2021

#117: The Moral Causes And Consequences Of Economic Growth – Benjamin M. Friedman

Benjamin M. Friedman is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading macroeconomists. He is currently the William Joseph Maier

January 25, 2021

#116: The Indiana Jones Of Anthropology On The Origins Of Western Psychology – Joe Henrich

Joe Henrich is Professor and Chair of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Secret of

January 18, 2021

#115: Deaths Of Despair And The Future Of Capitalism – Angus Deaton

Sir Angus Deaton is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. Transcript JOE

January 11, 2021

#114: On Ayn Rand, Cooperation, And Successful Societies – David Sloan Wilson

David Sloan Wilson is an evolutionary biologist and the author of Atlas Hugged. Transcript JOE WALKER: David Sloan Wilson, welcome back

January 01, 2021

#113: What I Learned In 2020 – John Hempton

John Hempton is co-founder and Chief Investment Officer at Bronte Capital. Show notes Selected links * Follow John: Blog | Twitter * ‘Approaches to

December 22, 2020

Rational Minds Part 5: Heuristics Make Us Smart – Gerd Gigerenzer

Gerd Gigerenzer is a German psychologist and director emeritus of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck

December 21, 2020

Rational Minds Part 4: The Blind Leading The Blind – David Hirshleifer

David Hirshleifer is a professor of finance and currently holds the Merage chair in Business Growth at the University of California.

December 20, 2020

Rational Minds Part 3: Rethinking Bubbles – Vernon Smith

Vernon Smith won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

December 19, 2020

Rational Minds Part 2: The Myth Of Tulip Mania – Anne Goldgar

Anne Goldgar is an historian and holds the Van Hunnick Chair in European History at the University of Southern California Dornsife.

December 17, 2020

Rational Minds Part 1: A Nation Of Gamblers – Ed Glaeser

Ed Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Show notes Selected links * Follow Ed: Website

December 15, 2020

#107: The Roaring Twenties And The Birth Of Consumer Credit – Martha Olney

Martha Olney is an economist and Teaching Professor in Berkeley’s Economics Department. Show notes Selected links * Follow Martha: Website | Twitter

December 07, 2020

#105: Despair And Indignation Among The American White Working Class – Arlie Hochschild

Arlie Hochschild is one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Show notes Selected links * Follow Arlie:

November 23, 2020

#104: Back To The Future – Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen is an economist and public intellectual par excellence. Show notes Selected links * Follow Tyler: Website | Twitter | Podcast | Blog * Stubborn

November 04, 2020

#103: A Labor Intellectual's Plan To Rebraid Our Frayed Social Fabric – Andrew Leigh

Dr Andrew Leigh MP is an economist and Federal Labor parliamentarian. Show notes Selected links * Follow Andrew: Website | Twitter * Reconnected, by

October 19, 2020

#102: Frauds And Visionaries – Bethany McLean

Bethany McLean is an investigative journalist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair. Show notes Selected links * Follow Bethany: Website | Twitter * The

October 12, 2020

#101: The Rise And Fall Of Monetary Policy – Ian Macfarlane

Ian Macfarlane was Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1996 to 2006. Show notes Selected links * Follow Ian: Website

October 05, 2020

#100: An Ode To The Uncorrelated Thinker – Eric Weinstein

Eric Weinstein is a mathematician and the Managing Director of Thiel Capital. Show notes Selected links * Follow Eric: Website | Twitter * The

September 28, 2020

#99: Housing Bubble Week Epilogue: Not All Bubbles Are Created Equal – Vernon Smith

Vernon Smith won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002. Show notes Charts Selected links * Follow Vernon: Website * Rethinking Housing

September 27, 2020

#98: The Meaning Of Human Existence, And The Search For Alien Life – Avi Loeb

Avi Loeb is Chair of Harvard’s Astronomy Department. Show notes Selected links * Follow Avi: Website * The Myth Of Sisyphus, by

September 24, 2020

#97: Of Viruses And Vaccines – Peter Doherty

Peter Doherty is an immunologist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Show notes Selected links * Follow Peter: Website

September 21, 2020

#96: The Housing Supply Myth – Cameron Murray & Ian Mulheirn

Cameron Murray is a Research Fellow at the University of Sydney’s Henry Halloran Trust. Ian Mulheirn is Executive Director and

August 13, 2020

#95: Inside Humanity's Infinite Improbability Drive – Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley is an author, journalist, biologist, and businessman. His books have sold over a million copies. Show notes Selected links

August 11, 2020

#94: Radical Uncertainty – Mervyn King

Mervyn King was Governor of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013. Show notes Selected links * Follow Mervyn King: Website

August 08, 2020

#93: The Doyen Of Economics Podcasting On Death, Lockdown, And The Art Of Socratic Dialogue – Russ Roberts

Russ Roberts is an economist and the host of EconTalk. Show notes Selected links * Follow Russ Roberts: Website | Twitter * EconTalk * Macroeconomic

July 22, 2020

#92: The Life And Times Of A Thoroughly liberal Prime Minister – Malcolm Turnbull

Malcolm Turnbull was Australia’s 29th Prime Minister. Show notes Selected links * Follow Malcolm Turnbull: Website | Twitter * A Bigger Picture, by

April 24, 2020

#91: How To Put The Economy Into A Coma – Chris Edmond & Steve Hamilton

Chris Edmond and Steve Hamilton are Australian economists. Show notes Selected links * Follow Chris Edmond: Website | Twitter * Follow Steve Hamilton: Website

April 02, 2020

#90: The Price Of Uncertainty – Chris Joye

Chris Joye is Founder and Co-Chief Investments Officer at Coolabah Capital Investments. He is also a Contributing Editor with The Australian

March 27, 2020

#89: How An Italian Town Conquered Coronavirus – Andrea Crisanti

Andrea Crisanti is a Professor of Microbiology at the University of Padua. He is part of the research team that eradicated

March 25, 2020

#88: A (New) Darwinian Left – Peter Singer (Live In Melbourne)

Peter Singer is the world’s most influential living philosopher. Show notes Selected links * ‘The Dos and Donts of Social Distancing’

March 18, 2020

#87: In The Foothills Of A Pandemic – Yaneer Bar–Yam

Yaneer Bar-Yam is a physicist and the founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute. Show notes Selected links * Follow

March 09, 2020

#86: Coronavirus, Covert Influence, And Cold War II – Kevin Rudd

Kevin Rudd was Australia’s 26th Prime Minister and is the President of the Asia Society Policy Institute. Show notes Selected

February 21, 2020

#85: The Evolution Of A Renegade – David Sloan Wilson

David Sloan Wilson is an evolutionary biologist. This episode of the podcast is brought to you by Freelancer.com and by

February 18, 2020

#84: The Intellectual Wild South – Eric Weinstein

Eric Weinstein is a mathematician and the Managing Director of Thiel Capital. This episode of the podcast is brought to you

January 31, 2020

#83: The Silent Hero Of The Australian Economy – Ian Macfarlane

Ian Macfarlane was Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1996 to 2006. He is the author of The Search

January 16, 2020

#82: The Modern Empiricist Proving Old Wisdom On Household Debt And Recession – Amir Sufi

Amir Sufi is the Bruce Lindsay Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

December 20, 2019

#81: How To Build A Future More Like Star Trek Than Terminator – Andrew Leigh

Dr Andrew Leigh MP is a member of the Australian federal parliament. He is currently Labor’s Shadow Assistant Minister for

November 18, 2019

#80: The Untold Tale of How One Ruthless Company Subjugated a Subcontinent – William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple is an acclaimed historian and travel writer. He lives nine months of the year on a goat farm outside

November 05, 2019

#79: On Radical Uncertainty, "Phantastic Objects", and Blowing Bubbles – David Tuckett

David Tuckett is a psychoanalyst, Professor, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty at University College London.

October 17, 2019

#78: Lifting the Veil on Sydney's Crime and Skulduggery – Kate McClymont

Kate McClymont is Australia’s most awarded journalist. An investigative reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald, she is famous for exposing

October 01, 2019

#77: Markets and The Madness of Crowds – Robert Shiller

Robert J. Shiller is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and one of the 2013 recipients of the Nobel Prize

September 07, 2019

#76: The Dogged Journalist Who (May Have) Pricked a Property Bubble – Adele Ferguson

Adele Ferguson is an award-winning investigative journalist best known for her work exposing misconduct and fraud in the Australian banking and

August 10, 2019

#75: The World According to a Maverick, Beach–Biding Stock Picker – John Hempton

John Hempton is a renowned short seller and the Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Australian-based hedge fund Bronte Capital. Selected

July 09, 2019

#74: Xi Loves Us, Xi Loves Us Not? – Kevin Rudd

This is an episode about a rising superpower (China) and its ruler (Xi Jinping). It’s also a conversation about what

June 14, 2019

#72: The Leader Of The Free World Is A Malignant Narcissist With Pre–Dementia – John Gartner

Richard Nixon once said, “I can go into my office and pick up the telephone and in twenty-five minutes seventy million

May 30, 2019

#71: Housing Bubble Week Finale: It's The Housing Cycle, Stupid! – Ed Leamer

This episode is about why housing busts cause recessions. Few understand their nexus better than Ed Leamer. Ed is the Chauncey

May 23, 2019

#70: Housing Bubble Week: Getting Things Done in Western Sydney – John Hempton

The logic is inevitable: credit is as much a feature of housing bubbles as the sun is of day. And to

May 21, 2019

#69: Housing Bubble Week: A Philosophy of Bubbles – Timo Henckel

Bubbles are everywhere today — or so we’re told. But what are they really? I speak with behavioural macroeconomist from the

May 19, 2019

#68: Housing Bubble Week: Speculation and Unchartered Waters – Chris Joye

Chris Joye manages $3 billion as the Co-Chief Investment Officer at Australian fixed-income manager Coolabah Capital Investments, and is a contributing

May 16, 2019

#67: Housing Bubble Week: Housing Bubbles as Availability Cascades – Timur Kuran

Timur Kuran is a Turkish American economist, Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor in Islamic Studies at

May 15, 2019

#66: Housing Bubble Week: Lessons From Amsterdam’s ‘Gentlemen’s Canal’ – Piet Eichholtz

We all know that real estate is the best long-term investment for capital gains, and property investors should just hold through

May 14, 2019

#65: Housing Bubble Week: Can We Predict Housing Bubbles? – Dean Baker

I speak with Dean Baker, US economist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research based in Washington, D.

May 13, 2019

#64: ‘Housing Bubble Week’ & Joe’s Speech to Mensa

I announce ‘Housing Bubble Week’ and share a speech I gave in Sydney in September 2018. Show notes Selected links * Follow

May 12, 2019

#63: Doing Good Better – Will MacAskill

Will MacAskill is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is also one of the founders of

April 30, 2019

#62: The Evolution Of Bret Weinstein

Bret Weinstein came to public prominence as the professor at the centre of the 2017 Evergreen State College protests. He is

April 02, 2019

#61: The Three Big Lies Poisoning Young Minds – Jonathan Haidt

This is a conversation with renowned moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt about his new book The Coddling of The American Mind, co-authored

December 13, 2018

#60: On Recessions – Andrew Charlton

Andrew Charlton is a Rhodes Scholar, economist, and author. From 2008-10, in his late twenties, he was senior economic adviser to

December 06, 2018

#58: When The Sky Fell In – Kevin Rudd

Joe speaks with the 26th Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd. Kevin led Australia from December 2007 to June 2010 and

October 25, 2018

#57: The Man Who Defied Europe – Yanis Varoufakis

Joe speaks with former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, the man who defied Europe to save Greece – and failed. Yanis, the

July 26, 2018

#53: Where Venture Capital Meets Social Purpose – May Samali

Critical technological and societal changes of the last century have been spearheaded by entrepreneurs and the investors who back them. How

June 14, 2018

#52: A Short Story of Everything – David Christian

The universe is 13.8 billion years old and humans have existed for only 200,000 years. If that time span

June 07, 2018

#51: The Art/Science of a High Impact Career – Rob Wiblin

Most people want to help others with their career, but what’s the best way to do that? Become a doctor?

June 02, 2018

#50: The Brave Cookie Monster – Brendan Eich

Brendan Eich is widely regarded as a ‘Father of the Web’. He is the creator of JavaScript and cofounder of Mozilla

May 29, 2018

#49: The Legendary, Fraud–Sniffing Short Seller - Marc Cohodes

For thirty-seven years, Marc Cohodes has bet big money against bad companies. Due to his success, he is regarded as one

May 24, 2018

#48: My Friend Richard, and Theories of the Universe – Leonard Susskind

Leonard Susskind is Felix Bloch professor of Theoretical physics at Stanford University, and one the fathers of String Theory. In this

May 17, 2018

#47: The Shape of Probability – Harry Crane

Harry Crane is a professor of statistics at Rutgers University. In this episode, Joe catches up with Harry in New Jersey

May 14, 2018

#46: How Peter Thiel Destroyed Gawker – Ryan Holiday

In 2016, a Florida court delivered an astounding $140 million verdict against Gawker media for publishing a sex tape of Hulk

May 03, 2018

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