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Growing Up with Delia BurgessEp. 70 - Neil & Delia: laws of power and winning influenceNeil Ganju is back.
Books mentioned:
The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are - Roger Ailes
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie 2023-09-1952 minGrowing Up with Delia BurgessEp. 67 - Neil Ganju: how to argue, the media, construction & ESGGuys I’m stranded in an airport trying to get back into the UK after all the air traffic control kerfuffles. Don’t have my laptop but Neil and I recorded this ep back in March and it was sitting in my drafts so pls enjoy xx2023-08-2953 minGrowing Up with Delia BurgessEp. 10 - Neil Ganju: how to come back from failing second year uniNeil Ganju (formerly known as chaotic_zingerbox) is the National Digital Engineering Director, BMS for WSP, Australia. He has a Master of Construction Engineering from the University of Cambridge; his thesis focussed on the use of digital engineering in sustainable management of construction projects.2022-10-251h 23
CAMcelledEpisode 8 - Should the word "breastfeeding" be cancelled?Fact checking:
Re origins of the wordwife from google: Middle English: probably from the obsolete preposition mid ‘with’ + wife (in the archaic sense ‘woman’), expressing the sense ‘a woman who is with (the mother’).
Sexual orientation was NOT in the census2022-01-191h 45CAMcelledEpisode 7 - Should male candidates be cancelled?We tried to be structured this episode and ended up rambling more than ever...
0:00 - Delia's next youtube video on a non fiction book (Prisoners of Geography)
16:20 - Neil's take on Djoka
21:20 - The pope's message on cancel culture
24:30 - Podcast feedback from a Cambridge coach - stop interrupting each other / verbally agreeing (but Delia continues doing it)
27:15 - Main topic! Finally. We start talking about quotas and realise we have so much to discuss and don't talk about half the points we each had planned and then end...2022-01-121h 15
CAMcelledEpisode 6 - Should Julian Assange be cancelled?Julian Assange - hero or a villain?
We get right into it on this ep. Should Julian be extradited to the US? What is he guilty of anyway? How does his case relate to freedom of the press?2021-12-2150 min
CAMcelledEpisode 5 - Should H&M have been cancelled in China?In this episode we discuss what happened to H&M in China in March 2021 after a corporate statement on Xinjiang cotton lead to a consumer boycott.
0.00 - Did you know 5% of Australia's population is of Chinese ancestary? We discuss Chinese immigration in Australia and why when talking about "China" it's important to distinguish between people of chinese ethnicity, Chinese people and the CCP.
17:30 - We talk briefly about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
22:50 - We get into what happened with H&M and how expressing Xinjiang cotton concerns hurt their business
50:20 - We also...2021-12-151h 05
CAMcelledEpisode 4 – Should journalists be cancelled for speaking out against their governments?At the start of the episode Neil says his answer to whether journalists should be cancelled is categorically no. He says this referring to this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner journalists, who we discuss in this episode. However by the end of the episode Delia finds an example of a journalist here in Australia who Neil thinks should be cancelled for speaking against the Victorian government. Happily we always find a way to disagree!
Let us know what you think by voting in the poll!
In this episode we talk about:
0.00 Nobel Prize fun...2021-12-081h 00
CAMcelledEpisode 3 - Do cancelled successful people still deserve our compassion?Hi! It’s Delia. On this ep we discuss:
1. (from 18:40) The best reason to not be racist
(NB: I know I accidentally said 1/3 or 2/3 instead of 3/5 re the US constitution *facepalm*… THIS is why I am setting out to read 100 nonfiction books: shameless plug for my youtube channel follow my journey here – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi9aihDz-_56sshHj8LThaQ)
2. Whether JK Rowling (from 29:30) and John Mayer (from 41:41) deserve death threats
3. My therapist’s advice on how to deal with trolls (from 51:21)
We also talk a lot about bullying, and ment...2021-12-011h 02
CAMcelledEpisode 2 - Should resurfaced social media posts result in loss of employment?Opening: Feedback from the first show and host @chaotic_zingerbox being worried about his own social media content
14:00: Main segment - English Cricketer Ollie Robinson and US journalist Alexi McCammond separately losing employment for racist / sexist / homophobic tweets they posted as teenagers
56:00: Teaser for next episode - in regards to cancel culture does mental health matter?
P.S. Following this episode Delia posted on her social media (@deals___) saying the way she presented in this episode doesn't sit right with her: "I think I allowed myself to be pulled on the bandwagon of saying 'wow...2021-11-241h 01
CAMcelledEpisode 1 - Should Hitler impersonations be banned?Our first episode!
We discuss the controversy surrounding the Cambridge Union (defender of free speech since 1815) following the 4 Nov 2021 debate where prominent art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon used a Hitler impersonation to argue that there is such thing as bad taste.
The aftermath involved the President being spat on, the creation of a speaker blacklist and subsequent u-turn, and comedian John Cleese blacklisting himself "before someone else does" ahead of his scheduled talk at the Union.
Excuse our awkwardness as we get into our groove (including Delia failing to land a joke about Neil's dating li...2021-11-171h 08