The Joe Walker Podcast (Jolly Swagman formerly)

By Joe Walker

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Episodes: 103

AndyRazz
 May 10, 2021
I love the deep dives into thoughts and theories of so many famous thinkers. I love the careful scaffolding that lets me feel like I'm keeping up with the conversation despite the paradigm shifting concepts. "Do yourself a favour"

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Joe Walker hosts refreshingly in-depth conversations with founders, scientists, scholars, economists, and public intellectuals.

(Formerly 'The Jolly Swagman Podcast'.)


Episode Date
2023 Retrospective — A Listener Interviews Me
Dec 29, 2023
David Deutsch & Steven Pinker (First Ever Public Dialogue) — AGI, P(Doom), & The Enemies of Progress
Dec 19, 2023
Shruti Rajagopalan — On Spotting Talent, And Making Sense of Rising India
Nov 28, 2023
Raghuram Rajan — Debt, Monetary Policy, and Unintended Consequences
Nov 01, 2023
Peter Singer — Moral Truths and Moral Secrets
Sep 19, 2023
Peter Turchin — Why Societies Fall Apart (And Why the US May Be Next)
Aug 30, 2023
Stephen Wolfram — Constructing the Computational Paradigm
Aug 16, 2023
Katalin Karikó — Forging the mRNA Revolution
Aug 01, 2023
Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Jul 25, 2023
Ken Henry — An Economic Odyssey
May 09, 2023
Palmer Luckey — Science (Non)fiction
Apr 25, 2023
Daniel Kahneman — Dyads, And Other Mysteries
Apr 13, 2023
Talent Is That Which Is Scarce — Tyler Cowen
Dec 31, 2022
Intellectual Exoskeletons — Andy Matuschak
Dec 23, 2022
Rationality And Its Opposite — Steven Pinker
Dec 14, 2022
Against Bayesianism — David Deutsch
Apr 24, 2022
The Lessons Of Afghanistan — William Dalrymple
Sep 05, 2021
The Race That Stopped The Nation — Richard Holden & Steven Hamilton
Aug 30, 2021
Ergodicity — Ole Peters
Aug 23, 2021
The Tyranny Of Merit — Michael Sandel
Jun 22, 2021
The Spectre Of Havoc — Graham Allison
Jun 14, 2021
A General Theory Of Catastrophe — Niall Ferguson
Jun 06, 2021
Policy In An Age Of Politics — John Hewson
May 24, 2021
A Practical Guide To Coping With Uncertainty — John Kay
May 17, 2021
Is Science Reaching Its Limits? — John Horgan
May 10, 2021
Marvellous Melbourne And Australia's Darkest Depression — Graeme Davison
May 04, 2021
A Forgotten Genius — Cheryl Misak
Apr 28, 2021
Progress And Planet — Malcolm Turnbull
Apr 12, 2021
The Craft Of Comedy And The Art Of A Lasting Partnership — Andy Lee
Mar 28, 2021
The Reign Of Keynes, Part II — Lord Robert Skidelsky
Mar 22, 2021
Recollections Of A Wild Man In The Wings — Noam Chomsky
Mar 17, 2021
There Is Such A Thing As Society — Sir Paul Collier
Mar 08, 2021
The Reign Of Keynes, Part I — Zach Carter
Feb 28, 2021
The Doyen Of Behavioural Genetics On Untangling Nature And Nurture — Robert Plomin
Feb 22, 2021
The Republic Is In Peril — Jack A. Goldstone
Feb 16, 2021
Hard-Earned Lessons From A Maverick Who Made It — Mark Cuban
Feb 08, 2021
The Wisdom Of Frank Wilczek
Jan 31, 2021
The Moral Causes And Consequences Of Economic Growth — Benjamin M. Friedman
Jan 24, 2021
The Indiana Jones Of Anthropology On The Origins Of Western Psychology — Joe Henrich
Jan 18, 2021
Deaths Of Despair And The Future Of Capitalism — Angus Deaton
Jan 11, 2021
On Ayn Rand, Cooperation, And Successful Societies - David Sloan Wilson
Dec 31, 2020
What I Learned In 2020 - John Hempton
Dec 21, 2020
Rational Minds Part 5: Heuristics Make Us Smart - Gerd Gigerenzer
Dec 21, 2020
Rational Minds Part 4: The Blind Leading The Blind - David Hirshleifer
Dec 20, 2020
Rational Minds Part 3: Rethinking Bubbles - Vernon Smith
Dec 19, 2020
Rational Minds Part 2: The Myth Of Tulip Mania - Anne Goldgar
Dec 17, 2020
Rational Minds Part 1: A Nation Of Gamblers - Ed Glaeser
Dec 15, 2020
The Roaring Twenties And The Birth Of Consumer Credit - Martha Olney
Dec 07, 2020
Despair And Indignation Among The American White Working Class - Arlie Hochschild
Nov 23, 2020
Back To The Future - Tyler Cowen
Nov 04, 2020
A Labor Intellectual's Plan To Rebraid Our Frayed Social Fabric - Andrew Leigh
Oct 19, 2020
Frauds And Visionaries - Bethany McLean
Oct 12, 2020
The Rise And Fall Of Monetary Policy - Ian Macfarlane
Oct 04, 2020
An Ode To The Uncorrelated Thinker - Eric Weinstein
Sep 28, 2020
Housing Bubble Week Epilogue: Not All Bubbles Are Created Equal - Vernon Smith
Sep 27, 2020
The Meaning Of Human Existence, And The Search For Alien Life - Avi Loeb
Sep 23, 2020
Of Viruses And Vaccines - Peter Doherty
Sep 20, 2020
The Housing Supply Myth - Cameron Murray & Ian Mulheirn
Aug 13, 2020
Inside Humanity's Infinite Improbability Drive - Matt Ridley
Aug 10, 2020
Radical Uncertainty - Mervyn King
Aug 08, 2020
The Doyen Of Economics Podcasting On Death, Lockdown, And The Art Of Socratic Dialogue - Russ Roberts
Jul 22, 2020
The Life and Times of a Thoroughly liberal Prime Minister - Malcolm Turnbull
Apr 24, 2020
How To Put The Economy Into A Coma - Chris Edmond & Steve Hamilton
Apr 01, 2020
The Price Of Uncertainty - Chris Joye
Mar 26, 2020
How An Italian Town Conquered Coronavirus - Andrea Crisanti
Mar 25, 2020
A (New) Darwinian Left - Peter Singer (Live in Melbourne)
Mar 18, 2020
In The Foothills Of A Pandemic - Yaneer Bar-Yam
Mar 09, 2020
Coronavirus, Covert Influence, And Cold War II - Kevin Rudd
Feb 20, 2020
The Evolution Of A Renegade - David Sloan Wilson
Feb 17, 2020
The Intellectual Wild South - Eric Weinstein
Jan 30, 2020
The Silent Hero Of The Australian Economy - Ian Macfarlane
Jan 15, 2020
The Modern Empiricist Proving Old Wisdom On Household Debt And Recession - Amir Sufi
Dec 19, 2019
How To Build A Future More Like Star Trek Than Terminator - Andrew Leigh
Nov 18, 2019
The Untold Tale Of How One Ruthless Company Subjugated A Subcontinent - William Dalrymple
Nov 04, 2019
On Radical Uncertainty, "Phantastic Objects", And Blowing Bubbles - David Tuckett
Oct 16, 2019
Lifting The Veil On Sydney's Crime And Skulduggery - Kate McClymont
Sep 30, 2019
Markets And The Madness Of Crowds - Robert Shiller
Sep 07, 2019
The Dogged Journalist Who (May Have) Pricked A Property Bubble - Adele Ferguson
Aug 09, 2019
The World According To A Maverick, Beach-Biding Stock Picker - John Hempton
Jul 08, 2019
Xi Loves Us, Xi Loves Us Not? - Kevin Rudd
Jun 14, 2019
Housing Bubble Week Finale: It's The Housing Cycle, Stupid! - Ed Leamer
May 23, 2019
Housing Bubble Week: Getting Things Done In Western Sydney - John Hempton
May 20, 2019
Housing Bubble Week: A Philosophy Of Bubbles - Timo Henckel
May 19, 2019
Housing Bubble Week: Speculation And Unchartered Waters - Chris Joye
May 16, 2019
Housing Bubble Week: Housing Bubbles As Availability Cascades - Timur Kuran
May 15, 2019
Housing Bubble Week: Lessons From Amsterdam's 'Gentlemen's Canal' - Piet Eichholtz
May 14, 2019
Housing Bubble Week: Can We Predict Housing Bubbles? - Dean Baker
May 13, 2019
'Housing Bubble Week' & Joe's Speech To Mensa
May 12, 2019
Doing Good Better - Will MacAskill
Apr 30, 2019
The Evolution Of Bret Weinstein
Apr 02, 2019
The Three Big Lies Poisoning Young Minds - Jonathan Haidt
Dec 13, 2018
On Recessions - Andrew Charlton
Dec 06, 2018
Elephants In The Room - Jonathan Tepper
Dec 03, 2018
When The Sky Fell In - Kevin Rudd
Oct 25, 2018
The Man Who Defied Europe - Yanis Varoufakis
Jul 26, 2018
Where Venture Capital Meets Social Purpose - May Samali
Jun 14, 2018
A Short Story Of Everything - David Christian
Jun 07, 2018
The Art/Science Of A High Impact Career - Rob Wiblin
Jun 02, 2018
The Brave Cookie Monster - Brendan Eich
May 29, 2018
The Legendary, Fraud-Sniffing Short Seller - Marc Cohodes
May 24, 2018
My Friend Richard, And Theories Of The Universe - Leonard Susskind
May 17, 2018
The Shape Of Probability - Harry Crane
May 14, 2018
How Peter Thiel Destroyed Gawker - Ryan Holiday
May 03, 2018