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this is a podcast about chronic illness. we discuss all the wondrous joys and justifiable woes of living life with unrelenting pain and fatigue, along with all sorts of generally silly and straight up rude garbage. there is understandably quite a lot of swearing. hosted by Queens of Pain Chloe Sargeant & Joanna Nilson See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Join Noon, Travis, Jo & Leah, a ragtag assembly of deep cover agents from the podcasting underground. They emerge blinking like naked mole people into the sunlight to bring you a round-up of this year of our lord, the cursed 2020. That’s right folks, they’re here not to save the world, but to bring you MegaPod. These four highly virile brain genius…
Okay yeah look first things first, Chloe and Joanna are really sorry about how much they talk about wee in this episode. It's a lot. Like, a lot a lot. Anyway: the chix also discuss some good Chrissy/holiday gifts for spoonies, as well as how to get through the silliest of seasons when you feel like hot garbage! Plus, a triple threat ep that includ…
EPISODE NINE BABY! Chlo and Joanna have been fatigued to all gaddamned heck lately, so they found a Netflix doco series about the clusterf*ck that is the wellness industry to binge and rant about - classic stuff. They also delve in the undeniably common link between wellness, conspiracy theories and Nazism (hi Pete), explain how the ‘spoon theory’ …
Jo, Matt and Declan are joined by former Domain writer and current thirst trap poster Jim Malo (@thejimmalo) to discuss the sorry state of housing in Australia. We talk about neoliberal housing policy, the future of the housing market, and the scourge of Landlord Brain. Plus: rental horror stories, ours and yours.…
Matt and Declan talk with former ABC and NewsCorp reporter John Ballot about how the sausage gets made. We discuss political influence on the news, the future of left media projects, and tHe MuRdOcH pReSs. Plus: dames.By Flood Media
Phwoooooar, episode 8! Sorry it's a spot late, but the gals have got an absolute corker for you. Chloe and Jo welcome their second chronically fully sick guest, the wonderful and talented Nadine Chemali!! This ep delves into stuff like having kids when you're a spoonie, how much investigative surgeries suck a heap of shit, cultural differences that…
In the wake of Mean Girls-Gate, Jo and Matt talk with fellow veterans of the online outrage trenches, Joanna Nilson and Paul McMillan. We discuss the increasingly common phenomenon of political 'dirt units' using social media posts to smear an opposition party, what it's like to have your posts on the front page of the Herald Sun, why it matters fo…
Them hectic brain foggo gals are back with episode 7! Chloe and Joanna get to yakking about stuff like: the long-term effects of COVID-19 and whether we could be looking at a whole new generation of spoonies after this pandemic ketamine treatments getting needles in their sexy faces Chloe having a nice spasm mid-recording P*te 'Dogshit' Ev*ns, as a…
We won South Brisbane.By Flood Media
Episode six, you sexy sick babes!! Chloe and Joanna delve into topics like buttchugging the sun (...sorry), how good pets and animals are at making us feel better when we're having a rubbish time with our bodies and brains, and how the opioid crisis has affected people who live with chronic illness and chronic pain. There's a new QUACK WATCH and a …
Jo and Matt interview Aaron Macdonald, the Greens candidate for Barron River (Cairns) about campaigning in North Queensland and making the Greens mainstream. We also get an all-important fruit dove update.By Flood Media
Episode 5! Chloe and Joanna have been flare bears together, but they still dragged themselves to a microphone to talk about the concept of reclaiming and/or taking control of pain after they watched a doco about the legendary chronically ill performance artist and BDSM legend Bob Flanagan. They also talk about their own ways of using pain to treat …
Matt interviews teacher and QTU rep Penny Allman-Payne about the state of public schools in Queensland. Could they be better? Turns out: yes. We talk about teaching at the tip of Cape York, broken air conditioners and why administrivia is everybody's problem.By Flood Media
Yes! It's episode 4! Chloe and Joanna discuss how excellent it is that there's so many books about chronic illness coming out lately, do yet another QUACK WATCH about curing your fibromyalgia with the Bible (¯\_(ツ)_/¯) and also delve into a new segment called HISTORICALLY FULLY SICK where they have a respectful chat about a nice lil' mummy called Ö…
Matt and Jo interview Keir Milburn, host of Novara Media podcast ACFM and author of Generation Left, about the generational split in our politics. Why does it exist, how’s it shaping our world and what do we do about it? We talk home ownership, zombie neoliberalism, brain microchips and singing the Swedish national anthem. Photo by Sushil Nash on U…
Chloe and Joanna yak it out about the every spoonie's most hated phrase ('but you don't look sick!!'), imposter syndrome and choosing to identify as a disabled person, how unfeasibly hot Kylo Ren is, delve into yet another ~QUACK WATCH~ and they also try to become beauty influencers (lmaoooooo). They also welcome their first guest: the stunning and…
Chloe and Joanna have some nice polite conversations about poo and IUDs, as well as bitching out a lot of bad doctors and discussing how the global pandemic has affected accessibility. They absolutely cooked the sound in the middle there, but to be honest, it’s what Pete Evans deserves. (They’re working on it, bless their cotton socks.) See acast.c…
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Your tumultuous introduction to the Chronically Fully Sick podcast. Mi casa es su casa. In this inaugural episode, Chloe and Joanna discuss chronic pain, pills, Fibromyalgia, Yvie Oddly, Kathleen Hanna, y*ga and rude advice. We swear a lot and Jo’s gone absolutely bloody nuts with a soundboard. We’re underwater aurally and metaphorically - please s…
Jo and Matt talk with Tom O'Grady, JCU Townsville Student Union President and the Greens candidate for Townsville, about doing left politics in the Deep North. How can the Greens win over One Nation voters in North Queensland? What would a left agenda for the regions look like? Plus, bonus Bob Katter content towards the end.…
Jo and Matt talk with Jeremiah Brown (@JeremiahTBrown) about the wild world of academia. What is the role of the neoliberal university, and what is it like to teach and study within it? How does academia shape "The Left" today? Is there such a thing as critical thinking anymore? And are podcasts better than journal articles? (Answer: yes)…
Declan, Matt, Eva and Jo discuss the politics of the city and the regions. How do we do politics in the city vs in the regions, and how do we build solidarity between the two? Also feat. a deep dive into the cults of Maleny and Northern NSWBy Flood Media
Jo, Deccas and Matt discuss the politics of posting and the wonderful world of Online. Can posting be praxis? What relationship is there between the online and offline worlds? Who is Aimee Terese? We answer all these questions and more.By Flood Media
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The absolute boy did nothing wrong, and other takes on the UK election.By Flood Media
Maddy, Ryan, Calum and Jo discuss the films of Bong Joon-ho - specifically, Snowpiercer and new release Parasite. ***EPISODE CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR BOTH FILMS***By Flood Media
Jo interviews writer and activist Federico Fuentes about the coup in Bolivia.By Flood Media
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Ryan, Declan, Jo and an anonymous staffy talk about how to win votes and influence people via the life-changing magic of doorknocking. We discuss political education for both voters and volunteers; repoliticising the everyday; and overcoming alienation and elitism.By Flood Media
