Knackers & The Vadge

Knackers & The Vadge

Podcast by Helen Razer

Episodes

Episode 37: Francis Leach

July 17, 2022 • 68 mins
The thirty-seventh episode, in which Knackers and The Vadge spring an extended Festivus-style ‘Airing of Grievances’ on their unsuspecting guest before inelegantly segueing into a half-arsed analysis of why Kate Bush is topping the charts again.
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Episode 36: The Post-Election Special

May 30, 2022 • 77 mins
The thirty-sixth episode, in which Knackers, The Vadge, and Professor Gary "The Regular" Foley conduct an in-depth analysis of the Australian election (by which we mean, talk about almost everything but it).
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Episode 35: Professor Gary Foley

March 15, 2022 • 65 mins
The long-overdue thirty-fifth episode, in which The Vadge gets curious about certain branches of her family tree.
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Episode 34: Garden Vadge

June 7, 2021 • 31 mins
The belated thirty-fourth episode, in which The Vadge turns her spade and sickle toward the task of untangling the SpaghettiOs in her brain.
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Episode 33: Nazeem Hussain

February 14, 2020 • 77 mins
The thirty-third episode, in which Knackers and The Vadge discuss the folly of expecting NGOs, CVE programs or stand-up comedy to meaningfully change the world, with comedian Nazeem Hussain.
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Episode 32: The Doona The Better

November 28, 2019 • 92 mins
The thirty-second (ugh, that's confusing) episode, in which Knackers & The Vadge are two in the bed and the little one said, 'Roll over!', so they all rolled over and this fell out.
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Episode 31: The Lost Demo Tape

September 26, 2019 • 37 mins
The sort-of thirty-first episode, in which Knackers and The Vadge discuss the current events of ages ago in this long-rumoured, much anticipated, recently unearthed lost demo rarity bootleg thingo from before Knackers was so tragically rendered mute.
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Episode 30: Dr Elizabeth Humphrys

August 11, 2019 • 47 mins
The thirtieth episode, in which Knackers and The Vadge discuss neoliberalism, unions, labour and Labor with Dr Elizabeth Humphrys.
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Episode 29: Professor Steve Keen

July 26, 2019 • 102 mins
The twenty-ninth episode, in which Knackers and The Vadge discuss the Australian Economic Miracle*, financialisation, Universal Basic Income, debt forgiveness and much more besides with heterodox economist Professor Steve Keen. * Not a miracle.
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Episode 28: Jim Casey

May 11, 2019 • 38 mins
The twenty-eighth episode, in which Knackers and The Vadge discuss the fantasy of deliberative democracy and the reality of industrial relations with the Australian Greens' candidate for Grayndler, Jim Casey.
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Episode 27: Aamer Rahman

April 20, 2019 • 48 mins
The twenty-seventh episode, in which Knackers & The Vadge discuss the Christchurch massacre, the Paris fire, and liberal myopia with comedian Aamer Rahman.
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Episode 26: Jeremy Poxon

April 14, 2019 • 99 mins
The twenty-sixth episode, in which Knackers and The Vadge are definitely not derelict in their Derridean double-reading duties with the Australian Unemployed Workers Union's Jeremy Poxon.
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Episode 25: Julian Burnside

April 12, 2019 • 36 mins
The twenty-fifth episode, in which Knackers and The Vadge disagree on just about everything with The Australian Greens' candidate for Kooyong, Julian Burnside.
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Episode 24: Francis Leach

March 22, 2019 • 103 mins
The twenty-fourth episode, in which Knackers and The Vadge talk to Francis Leach again. They'll make him a Proper Leftist one day. Not today, mind; but, one day. Just you listen.
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Episode 23: Professor Gary Foley

February 27, 2019 • 85 mins
The twenty-third episode, in which Knackers and The Vadge talk with Professor Gary Foley about land rights, gentrification, Kerri-Anne Kennerley, and other variations on the theme of white privilege.
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Episode 22: Digital Manipulation Gets Right Up The Vadge

February 24, 2019 • 44 mins
The twenty-second episode (don't get too excited, it actually goes for forty-five minutes), in which Knackers and The Vadge talk to those of you who do not find yourselves "digitally excluded" about those who do, and also some fun things.
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Episode 21: The Vadge Melts Down

January 21, 2019 • 64 mins
Episode twenty-one, in which The Vadge has fuggen had it. Like, properly.
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Episode 20: Tarneen Onus-Williams

January 12, 2019 • 107 mins
The twentieth episode, in which Knackers and The Vadge speak with great ignorance and discernible white defensiveness to Tarneen Onus-Williams about Aboriginal protest.
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Episode 19: Word of the Year

January 5, 2019 • 56 mins
The nineteenth episode, in which Knackers and The Vadge reflect upon the Word of the Year for the turd of a year that was 2018.
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Episode 18: Flick Ruby

December 24, 2018 • 76 mins
The eighteenth episode, in which Knackers and The Vadge celebrate Chrissyleaks with Flick Ruby.
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