Best Sean Slaughter Podcasts (2025)

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‘Liars, inventors, embroiderers: Rewriting the life and myth of Charmian Clift’ by Nadia Wheatley 32:30

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This week on The ABR Podcast, we feature a special essay by biographer Nadia Wheatley titled ‘Liars, inventors, embroiderers: Rewriting the life and myth of Charmian Clift’. ‘What does a biographer do’, Wheatley asks, ‘when she discovers she has something wrong?’ In Wheatley’s case, it was not something that just she had wrong, but something that h…

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‘Understand me now: Poetry which cuts into the work’ by Grace Roodenrys 7:53

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This week on the ABR Podcast, Grace Roodenrys reviews KONTRA by Eunice Andrada, observing that the collection draws on a poetics of cultural excavation. As Roodenrys explains, Andrada retrieves and rewrites the ways that women’s bodies have been framed, worshipped, and fetishised. She goes on to say that ‘KONTRA must work to resist a number of powe…

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Bulletproof Spirit With Author Dan Willis 1:08:23

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Captain Dan Willis is the author of Bulletproof Spirit. The First Responder’s Essential Resource for Protecting and Healing Mind and Heart. Written by a former police captain, homicide detective, wellness unit coordinator, and SWAT commander. This book opens the door to a kind of strength that’s often overlooked the strength it takes to stay human …

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Beyond The Sideline 1:09:16

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Tune in live on Wednesday, November 19, for a special episode at 6 PM CST. 7PM EST. Streaming live on Facebook Live and YouTube Live. On You And The Law Podcast, with my guest, Carl King II, host of Open Mic on the Caliedascope Radio Network. We will unpack the viral video clip featuring a Texas DPS Trooper that has sparked widespread public outrag…

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‘For shame: Social value of an emotion’ by Jessica Whyte 11:04

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This week, on The ABR Podcast, Jessica Whyte reviews A Philosophy of Shame: A revolutionary emotion by Frédéric Gros. Whyte applauds the attempt to ‘revolutionise how we think about shame’ and to consider shame not simply as a retrograde emotion but ‘a resource for political struggle’. But in Gros’ book, writes Whyte, there is ‘abstract quality’ to…

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‘Carte blanche from me’: Volume two in a PM biography by Patrick Mullins 9:06

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This week, on The ABR Podcast, Patrick Mullins reviews Hawke PM: The making of a legend by David Day. Approaching Day’s second volume of the Hawke biography, Mullins asks: ‘how much more can there be to say?’ And, in the end, he concludes that ‘without a new perspective and questions that could throw new light on Hawke, the facts marshalled are gen…

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The Kada Scott Homicide With Guest Dr. Sunny Slaughter 1:35:49

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Tune in live Thursday at 6 PM CST. 7PM EST. Streaming live on Facebook Live and YouTube Live. For another informative conversation with my guest, Dr. Sunny Slaughter, who has been featured on CourtTV, CNN, and FOX. We will discuss the tragic kidnapping and murder of Kada Scott. S. How this case reveals the failures of the Cash Bail System in Philad…

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‘On so many levels: A sharp yet melancholic account’ by Clare Corbould 9:19

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This week, on The ABR Podcast, Clare Corbould reviews The Shortest History of the United States of America by Don Watson. Corbould praises Watson’s ‘sharp observations’ and his ‘wry and knowing analysis’ but notes a ‘melancholic tone’ as he explores the United States’ slide ‘into populism and authoritarianism’. Historian Clare Corbould is Associate…

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Show Topic: Part 3 11 Fatal Flaws of Leadership Guest Sean M. Carroll 1:18:22

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Join me and my guest, Lieutenant Sean M. Carroll (Ret), on Thursday at 6PM CST 7PM EST. For part three of our conversation on the 11 Fatal Flaws of Leadership. Digging deeper into the 11 Fatal Flaws of leadership and ways to set yourself up for success in 3 simple steps.

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‘Limerence’ by Rachael Wenona Guy 33:57

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This week on The ABR Podcast we feature Rachael Wenona Guy’s short story ‘Limerence’, which placed third in the 2025 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. ‘Limerence’ deftly interweaves artifice and realism, narrative ellipses and unsettling meditation to create an uncanny confession. It stages a teenage girl’s obsession around the image of the dead …

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Part 2 11 Fatal Flaws of Leadership 1:30:12

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oin me and my guest, Lieutenant Sean M. Carroll (Ret), on Thursday at 6PM CST 7PM EST. For part two of our conversation on the 11 Fatal Flaws of Leadership. Digging deeper into the 11 Fatal Flaws of leadership and ways to set yourself up for success in 3 simple steps.

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‘Questions for Mai: Joshua Reynolds’s portrait and the memory of Empire’ by Kate Fullagar 28:13

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This week, on The ABR Podcast, we feature Kate Fullagar’s essay ‘Questions for Mai: Joshua Reynolds’s portrait and the memory of Empire’. Fullagar delves into the history behind Joshua Reynold’s famous portrait of Mai, the first Pacific Islander to visit Britain. She considers what she calls a ‘complicated enmeshment of art, money, and national mem…

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Who Caused The Tragic Car Accident Involving LSU Football Player Kyren Lacy? 1:03:49

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New evidence suggests Kyren Lacy, the late LSU football player, did not cause a car crash that resulted in the death of a 78-year-old man. Lacy, a former LSU wide receiver, died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound in April after he was charged with negligent homicide and felony hit-and-run. Kyren Lacy’s Death at 24 Sheds Another Light on Black Male S…

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‘AI will kill us/save us: Hype and harm in the new economic order’ by Judith Bishop 22:05

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This week, on The ABR Podcast, Judith Bishop reviews Empire of AI: Inside the reckless race for total domination by Karen Hao and The AI Con: How to fight Big Tech’s hype and create the future we want by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna. Bishop seeks to cut through what she sees as prevailing ‘AI doomer/boomer ideologies’, where artificial intelligen…

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11 Fatal Flaws of Leadership With Guest Sean Carroll 1:03:54

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My guest this week on You And The Law Podcast is a decorated retired police commander, United States Marine Corps veteran, and executive leadership coach who has spent his life leading through chaos. Lieutenant Sean M. Carroll (Ret.) Today, Sean trains law enforcement leaders, executives, and high-pressure decision-makers to adapt under pressure, i…

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‘Sediment’ by Tracey Slaughter 37:48

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This week on The ABR Podcast we feature Tracey Slaughter’s short story ‘Sediment’, which placed second in the 2025 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. ‘Sediment’ takes the form of twenty-seven brilliant points about living and loving in a female share house. It encompasses intense casual relationships and snarks at a landlord and his rotten portfol…

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What Is Trauma-Informed Policing? Guest Captain Eric Threlkeld, 1:08:06

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It is a policing approach focused on understanding how trauma impacts individuals' behaviors, leading to increased empathy, decreased re-traumatization, and improved community trust. Join the host, Chief Virgil Green, and his guest, Eric Threlkeld, who has a robust background in law enforcement operations with a specialized focus on domestic violen…

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‘Albanese’s “Australian Way”: The rise of “progressive patriotism” and its complex past’ by Sean Scalmer 15:16

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This week, on The ABR Podcast, we feature Sean Scalmer’s commentary ‘Albanese’s “Australian Way”: The rise of “progressive patriotism” and its complex past’. Scalmer investigates Albanese’s definition of the ‘Australian Way’, which ‘served as a touchstone on the campaign trail’, and asks what this ethos represents for the Labor government, particul…

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What Makes A Traffic Stop Lawful or Unlawful? 54:48

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A traffic stop is lawful if a police officer has reasonable, articulable suspicion that you are violating a traffic law or engaging in criminal activity, or if there's a warrant for your arrest, or the stop is a regulated safety inspection like a sobriety checkpoint. An unlawful stop occurs when there is no valid legal basis, such as when the offic…

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‘Deeper into darkness: Iran after the twelve-day war’ by Zoe Holman 10:27

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This week, on The ABR Podcast, we feature ‘Deeper into darkness: Iran after the twelve-day war’. Australian journalist Zoe Holman writes on life in Iran after the recent twelve-day war, investigating whether conflict brought Iranians closer to democracy or further away from it. She speaks to Iranians in the diaspora, including a London-based academ…

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‘“Come nearer to Asia”: Australia’s place at Bandung, 1955’ by Nathan Hollier 17:22

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This week, on The ABR Podcast, we feature Nathan Hollier’s commentary ‘“Come nearer to Asia”: Australia’s place at Bandung, 1955’. Seventy years after the 1955 Asian-African Conference, Hollier reflects on Australia’s official absence from this historic ‘postcolonial moment’, as well as its unofficial presence. Hollier recalls the invitation of Ind…

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‘Shelling’ by Tara Sharman 17:32

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This week on The ABR Podcast we feature Tara Sharman’s short story ‘Shelling’, which won the 2025 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. In ‘Shelling’, we meet a woman in flight, driving with the corpse of her dead father stowed in the boot of her car. Stunningly written, savagely honest, this is a story about grief – the grief of losing a father, the…

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‘“Without undue suffering”: Japan’s August 1945 and the superweapon alibi’ by Clinton Fernandes 19:44

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This week on the ABR Podcast, we feature Clinton Fernandes’ commentary ‘“Without undue suffering”: Japan’s August 1945 and the superweapon alibi’. On the eightieth anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, historian Clinton Fernandes delivers a gripping reassessment of the world’s only use of atomic bombs against civilians and exposes …

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‘Other Orientalisms: Refusing to be spectacle’ by Lynda Ng 9:50

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This week on the ABR Podcast, Lynda Ng reviews To Save and To Destroy: Writing as an Other by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Nguyen, who arrived in the United States from Vietnam as a child refugee in 1975, is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer. To Save and To Destroy is a collection of pieces Nguyen delivered for the prestigious Norton Lectu…

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Use of the military as domestic law enforcement 1:05:01

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Effective policing should be more focused on catching offenders and keeping communities safe, neither of which is accomplished by blurring the line between military and law enforcement roles. Inappropriate and excessive use of the military as domestic law enforcement not only threatens liberty and local control, it also undermines effective crime p…

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‘Dogged pursuit: Australia’s “America first” policy’ by Marilyn Lake 16:02

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This week on the ABR Podcast, Marilyn Lake reviews After America: Australia and the new world order by Emma Shortis and Hard New World: Our post-American future (Quarterly Essay 98) by Hugh White. Lake observes that both ‘authors argue that it is time to imagine a post-American world’ and emphasise ‘the necessity of retrieving our relationship with…

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‘Some undefined peace: Moving beyond “migrant writer”’ by Felicity Plunkett 14:36

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This week on the ABR Podcast, Felicity Plunkett reviews new collections of Antigone Kefala’s poetry and fiction, observing that the belated recognition of this major Australian figure suggests that Kefala has moved beyond the designation ‘migrant writer’. ABR was this week delighted to announce that Felicity Plunkett is ABR’s new Poetry Editor. Her…

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‘Balance sheet blues: The pros and cons of Pax Americana coming to an end’ by James Curran 11:04

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This week on the ABR Podcast we feature James Curran’s commentary ‘Balance sheet blues: The pros and cons of Pax Americana coming to an end’. Curran’s focus is the evolving relationship between Australia and America during and beyond Trump’s second administration. James Curran is a Professor of Modern History at Sydney University and International …

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‘Consolation of Clouds’ by Robin Boord 15:47

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This week on the ABR Podcast we feature Robin Boord’s essay ‘Consolation of Clouds’, which was placed third in the 2025 Calibre Essay Prize. The essay conveys the mystery surrounding the death of a woman’s father, a pilot in the Korean War, who died unexpectedly at home after a mechanical failure on a training flight. Boord writes in poetic prose t…

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Women Of Color And Mental Health 1:07:27

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Recently in Houston, Texas, a 64-year-old Black woman intentionally crashed into the back of an 18-wheeler. Pulled out a gun and a lawn chair and sat in one of the lanes, sparking an hours-long standoff, and has a history of mental illness. The woman would later surrender, and no one was hurt in the incident. Tune in live Thursday at 6 PM CST with …

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‘Mao’s mango: Cultural Revolution as history or farce’ by Shan Windscript 12:05

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This week on the ABR podcast we feature Shan Windscript’s review of Bombard the Headquarters! by Linda Jaivin. Though Windscript applauds Jaivin for condensing the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of Communist China into a succinct and vivid account, Windscript argues this approach sacrifices historical nuance. Shan Windscript is a cultural hi…

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‘Liars, inventors, embroiderers: Rewriting the life and myth of Charmian Clift’ by Nadia Wheatley 32:30

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‘Understand me now: Poetry which cuts into the work’ by Grace Roodenrys 7:53

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Bulletproof Spirit With Author Dan Willis 1:08:23

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Beyond The Sideline 1:09:16

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‘For shame: Social value of an emotion’ by Jessica Whyte 11:04

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‘Carte blanche from me’: Volume two in a PM biography by Patrick Mullins 9:06

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The Kada Scott Homicide With Guest Dr. Sunny Slaughter 1:35:49

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‘On so many levels: A sharp yet melancholic account’ by Clare Corbould 9:19

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Show Topic: Part 3 11 Fatal Flaws of Leadership Guest Sean M. Carroll 1:18:22

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‘Limerence’ by Rachael Wenona Guy 33:57

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Part 2 11 Fatal Flaws of Leadership 1:30:12

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‘Questions for Mai: Joshua Reynolds’s portrait and the memory of Empire’ by Kate Fullagar 28:13

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Who Caused The Tragic Car Accident Involving LSU Football Player Kyren Lacy? 1:03:49

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‘AI will kill us/save us: Hype and harm in the new economic order’ by Judith Bishop 22:05

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11 Fatal Flaws of Leadership With Guest Sean Carroll 1:03:54

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‘Sediment’ by Tracey Slaughter 37:48

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What Is Trauma-Informed Policing? Guest Captain Eric Threlkeld, 1:08:06

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‘Albanese’s “Australian Way”: The rise of “progressive patriotism” and its complex past’ by Sean Scalmer 15:16

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What Makes A Traffic Stop Lawful or Unlawful? 54:48

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‘Deeper into darkness: Iran after the twelve-day war’ by Zoe Holman 10:27

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‘“Come nearer to Asia”: Australia’s place at Bandung, 1955’ by Nathan Hollier 17:22

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‘Shelling’ by Tara Sharman 17:32

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‘“Without undue suffering”: Japan’s August 1945 and the superweapon alibi’ by Clinton Fernandes 19:44

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‘Other Orientalisms: Refusing to be spectacle’ by Lynda Ng 9:50

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Use of the military as domestic law enforcement 1:05:01

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‘Dogged pursuit: Australia’s “America first” policy’ by Marilyn Lake 16:02

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‘Some undefined peace: Moving beyond “migrant writer”’ by Felicity Plunkett 14:36

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‘Balance sheet blues: The pros and cons of Pax Americana coming to an end’ by James Curran 11:04

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‘Consolation of Clouds’ by Robin Boord 15:47

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Women Of Color And Mental Health 1:07:27

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‘Mao’s mango: Cultural Revolution as history or farce’ by Shan Windscript 12:05