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The Battler
by Bringing you the best of Australian bastardry.
The Battler is a podcast about culture, politics and media in Australia, hosted by Patrick Marlborough and Timwintoncellectuals. thebattler.substack.com
Episodes
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Ep75. Cinemarchaelogy w. Simon Miraudo
BATTLERS! While 'Tim' is 'away' 'marrying' his 'wife', Pat chats to writer, critic, cinephile, and film historian, Simon Miraudo, about their upcoming book, 'Last Rites for Lost Films', which is out October 28 vis Simon's imprint, Low Heroes Press. (Simon is launching the book on the 29th of...
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Ep74. Calendar Days ft. Mitch L. Ryan
This week the Y*ppie D*gs are talking to Mitch L. Ryan, musician, author, record seller and author of a new book on Dick Diver’s Calendar Days, the seminal album. They chat dolewave, post-Howard political culture, the death of the music industry and the flowering of criticism in the 2010s...
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Ep.73 | DIY OR DOA w. Max Easton
This week the D*sgraced S*nators talk to their first repeat-guest, the perennial Max Easton. Max brought out his new novel, Now, Autonomy, a couple of months ago, and he’s on to chat the Sydney scenes (DIY, Music, Literature, Politics); writing the present; literature as questions rather than...
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Ep. 72 | BIPOC Milat
This week Chopper and The Dodge are up Wolf Creek without a Matt Canavan rowing paddle; Chatting One Nation race science; baby pig punting; beef week; woke Milat for miscegenation; Dockerdom; failures of policing DV, croc olympics and the unbearable “who?”ness of Sheeran. Thanks as always to Herr...
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Ep71. Bluey Waffle
Would a transphobic Gandalf be TOO powerful? The Battlers go over the deep lore of Adelaide and its many evil twinks, discuss the intangible nature of the average One Nation voter, ponder Walt Whitman and more in this week’s episode. Thanks as always to Dictator Dan Dare for producing this ep…
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Ep.70 Either Way You Lose w. Patrick Hunn & Ursula Robinson-Shaw
This week the m*nters chat to Patrick Hunn, whose new book, Either Way You Lose, is out on the 18th of September. Joining Pat is Ursula Robinson-Shaw, who helps to run Sick Leave– the press that is putting out the book. They talk about the short story as a form, the benefits of living in an ugly...
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Ep69. Glorious Heights with Montaigne
This week the C*rdeliers chat with pop chanteux and impresario Montaigne, ahead of their appearance at the Bella Ciao anti fascist festival this weekend at the Thornbury Theatre. They talk about pop music in Australia, the difficulty of juggling political and aesthetic commitments and remaining…
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Ep.68 Certified Sinophile
This week, the Sp*rious tw* chat the various iterations of woke and the flashpoint of the Arday case in the UKKK. They talk the nature and history of the great Satan “identity politics.” They chat the end of MAGA and the possibilities of rebuilding amerikkka in its wake. They quibble over justice...
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Ep. 67 Wet Behind The Ears with Becki Whitton
This week, the Georges Batt**l*ers talk to Becki Whitton, or Aphir, the musician and producer behind the Wettest 100. We talk about the gaps in broadcast and the Aussie market for experimental or “left-field” music; the forms of support that artists provide for each other when old structures...
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Ep. 66. Crackerjack Fascism
Www.thebattler.net www.thebattler.net www.thebattler.net www.thebattler.net * William Carlos Williams We have a bloody website and we want YOU to give us money! You can get all kinds of great merch (paid), paid subscriptions (paid), access to a discord server (paid) and all kinds of other great...
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Ep.65 Diary of a Gympie Kid
This week it’s Labor Fever as the Gr*upers talk the smell of the National Conference, Caroll’s Allan Stabbing, Shoppification and the sidelining of Ed “Hughesy” Husic, all broadcast from the media room at Felix Lee’s Point Piper mansion. They also talk about the One Nation sturmarbeitung, Malcolm...
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Ep64. Birthday Trippin' with James Robert Woods
This week, the L*estrygoonians talk to James “Robert” Woods, whose The Birthday Trip comes out in cinemas on the 30th of July. They discuss Stan originals/music video aesthetics in oz cinema; the state of the industry; the stakes of social satire in Australia, and the particulars of getting a…
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Ep63. Ladybuggery
This week the imp*rial ret*nue mourn the passing of Sam Neill, Liberal Party Corruption (Catholic Schools edition), the great book production debate, Melvillean Marxism and the terrors of Left irony, making prisons safe spaces, Lindsey Graham queer lore, Mamdani Italian erasure, the racial…
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Ep.62 Lynx Africa Frosty
Battlers, we have a question for you…Shag - Date - Marry: Pat - Tim - Drew.This week, The Battler Lads discuss The Beijing of the North (Brisbane), Pat’s (receding) hairbrained scheme to sell OzLit to the Chinese market, contemporary Chinese cinema, the mercurial definition of ‘The Battler’ in...
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BONUS EP: Michael Winkler's "Griefdogg" Launch
With Tim up in the great Pearl River City of Brisbane, this week the Battler brings you a conversation between friends of the pod Michael Winkler and Giacomo Bianchino. They launched the book Griefdogg together at Better Read than Dead, in Sydney, back on the 15th of June. They chat about…
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Ep61 Swim Centre Poetics w. james.haha.nice
This week, the extended M*rlborough-Sh*a-C*llectual clan chat for ages with James.haha.nice: the “alternative comedian from Melbourne” responsible for the Harold Holt Swim Centre series on Instagram Tiktok. They talk about “Puss” Holt, the general mean-ness of the Australian political class; the...
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Ep.60 SJXSJC IN FURS w. Shane Jesse Christmass
This week, the gr*nks are talking to Shane Jesse Christmass, author of Xerox Over Manhattan; Latex, Texas; Meth DTF and a bunch of other indie gems. They talk prose style, the global indie publishing orbit, Amerikkka as theory and practice; collaboration across continents and defining Ozlit. It’s…
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Ep59. #Jesuischarlie
This week, the Wh*te D*gs are chatting ABC stores and the blackface era of the 2000s; the Bellingen writers’ festival and Lesbian scene; nearly coming to blows over Wes Anderson; method acting; Charlie Pickering: Zionist BB King; Sooshi Mango; Betootafication; the Parkinson era; TISM wars; AUKUS...
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Ep. 58 Pavlou's Dog C*nts
This week the str*nzi are off-leash and rolling in any shit they can stick their noses into. They talk the rise of the PHONies and the inadequacy of certain Left responses; the BRS/Hastie beef; the trenchant bastardy of cops; the cruelty of Australia and cultural Howardism; the Teal Panel Party;...
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Ep57 Keeping Up Appearances w/ Will Cox
This week, the c*bbers talk to Will Cox, critic and author of Hyacinth, a gothic retelling of various episodes of Keeping Up Appearances. They chat about the nature of old media and nostalgia, serialisation, experimentation in modern fiction, translation and appropriation, formal fragmentation…
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Ep56. Mudoken Malarkey
On this very special late night/laggy recording of The Battler, Pat talks about the splendour and the beauty of living in the ADHD capital of Australia, while Tim discusses his first time with Ridley Scott’s criminally underseen ‘Alien.’ We also get into The Federal Budget, Dave Hughes’ descent...
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Bonus Ep.
Battlers! Tim is sick with Hentai Virus and Pat has been busy animating Hentai! So we’ve had to take the week off—Latham forgive us!But on Tuesday, May 12, Pat had the honour of sitting down with renowned OzLit scholar/academic/critic Emmett Stinson to talk all things NOCK LOOSE at Lawson Flats…
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Ep55. Rebel (Wilson) Ballads
This week the wh*te d*gs don’t have much to talk about in the news, so they talk about the Fremantle Dockers bris-based goal celebrations, Sopranos dolewave, Paul Kelly’s italian heritage erasure, Sergeant Johnson’s Purple Heart award, slurs for white people, The Safran Defence, KRudd’s Eunuch...
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Ep54. Tarofash
This week, Pat is in Melbourne to open the new High Street Maccas. Timbo is at Tigertown activating the Tinny Dome. They chat Apple stores and the disappearance of dudes with Stretcher earrings; Cheers lore and the differential status of bar flies in Amerikkka and Australia; IDF Hentai…
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Ep53_Creating Drama w/ Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle
This week the g**ners chat with poet and flaneuse Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle, about the release of her two new-old books, Autobiography of a Marguerite and Leaves Fall Off to Create Drama. They talk about the legacy of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry; the changes in verse in the last couple of decades;...
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Ep52. Paisano Libtard
This week the f*dayeen are (finally) flying solo again, like a drone over the red sea; collecting expensive missiles from the haters as they go. They chat Clavicular getting Minutemogged; One Nation’s predator problem and the MILLENNIAL WOMEN supporting them!!!!; Angus Trumpchrist; the...
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Ep51. GrimmDogg with Michael Winkler
This week, the adl*ys chat with Michael Winkler, author of 2021’s Grimmish and the recently-published Griefdogg. Between Pat’s heavy breathing and voluminous outpourings of admiration, they chat about the stakes of aussie lit, the nature of literary style, the lack of it in much of our local...
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Ep50. Fraction of the Toltz.
This week the fr*telli speak to Steve Toltz, whose new novel, A Rising of the Lights is out next week from Penguin. He tells them about his theories of comedy, influences from across history, and his resistance to blame the publishing industry for the inveterate dullness of so much of Ozlit. You...
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Ep49 Paris Endoscopy.
This week the fr*telli talk about the strike wave lapping the shores of the island continent, from teachers to uni staff to ABC employees. They also talk about the SA election and Iran, and get caught in a spiral complaining yet again about the state of literature. They take particular umbrage…
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Ep48. Howard Battlers ft. Amy Remeikis
This week the Battlers talk to Amy Remeikis about her new book: Where It all Went Wrong: the Case Against John Howard. Amy, a real battler, cuts sick on the legacy of The Rat, from privatisation to political culture to the destruction of the parliamentary liberal party. Next Wednesday (25th) is…
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Ep47. Extraordinary Combination of Internal Errors
This week the fellxs talk the ozymandian collapse of Kyle and Jackie O, David Littleproud and Pornhub. They also chat (a lot) about adult content, the changing face of misogyny and the state of play in the war on Iran. True to form, they call the rise of Matt Canavan-San before it happened.Next…
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Ep 46. Dubai Erasure
The Battler is officially the last great broadcast duo still recording in Australia. This week, the fellangists talk about the liberation of Iran from several hundreds of its citizens; Operation Epic Fury; the strangely uneventful feeling of descending into WW3; Drew Pavlou Shen Yun false flags;...
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Ep45. CFME Me?!?! CFME You!!!!
This week, the l*ds talk about the stupid, dumb and idiotic reporting on the CFMEU by king rat Nick McKenzie and Geoffrey “Wages Are a Gift” Watson. They also talk about Sega World Green Bans; the Eternal Howard and his enduring influence, the cultural hooliganism of older Australians, disagree...
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Ep 44– Genghis Taylor
This week, the fellangists are talking about the rise to the Shadow Khanate of Genghis Taylor and the encirclement of Sultana Sussan Ley after her abandonment by the various slimy Viziers of her erstwhile cabinet. In other Turkish news, Drew Pavlou was “Drewported” from Amerikkka for the simple…
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Ep.43 I Suck Huge Hog
This week the fell*s talk about the violent Pali Rally that put police officers in an impossible situation, and the heroic efforts of the cops to restore order. They talk about the poise and gallantry of Isaac Herzog, President of the Jews, as he fronts his people. They also talk about the...
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Ep42– Closing the Yap with Yaraman Thorne
This week the fell*s are joined by writer, actor, housepainter but in no ways comedian Yaraman “Yazzy” Thorne. They chat about what the hell happened to the ABC; the great icons of comic broadcast; Paul Fenech’s Indigenous heritage; and the conservative meltdown over Always Was Tonight.…
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Ep41 The Boorloo Bomber
This week, Pat and Tim talk about the disgusting act of violence attempted by a nazi fuckstick on invasion day in Perth. In more responsible moments, they also talk about Hamas crocodiles, autistic magneto. the long tail of the Howardocene. indigenous culture and snowflake conservatives; and the...
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Ep40: H8 Speech Forever
This week, the B*ttlers talk about the shiny new hate speech laws, which were minted the day after we recorded. We talk about how the coalition have managed to turn victory into a colossal autocucking, which has properly materialised in the days since Monday. We also remind you of the importance…
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Ep39: Ozlit Shrugged with Lexi Freiman
This week the fellxs talk to Lexi Freiman, author of Inappropriation and The Book of Ayn. They talk NEW YORK vs Sydney vs Hungary, the nature of satire, and the problems besetting Australian literary culture. Lexi tells us about At Large, the reading series she is putting on in Sydney with an...
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Ep38: Commission Royale
In this week’s episode, Los Guerreros talk about the precipitous idiocy of a “Royal Commission” into an attitude. As always, things have become six times stupider since the podcast was recorded, so listen here for the talking points you’ll need to use when people bring up the Royal Commission…
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Ep. 37: BONDI
This week The Battlers process the events of the last week, starting with the antisemitic attack in bondi on Sunday. Tim talks about the atmosphere at bondi over the week, they discuss the cynical response by the universe of grifters on the Right. We also chat about it the geopolitical context…
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Ep. 36: Slop, Slap, Slip ft. Miriam Webster
The Battlers yarn with author Miriam Webster about her brilliant debut short story collection, The Slip, out now via Aniko Press. Beyond that, Pat and Tim stake their claim as “Australia’s wokest podcast” and discuss the social media ban, the inevitable BPDification of Barnaby Joyce’s blood pact...
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Ep35: Pauline Habibti
Tim is back from Nippon, where he destroyed Tokyo in a fight to save Mothra from George “Hands” Christensen. The B*ttlers talk about the Great Land of Wa; kids TV and capitalism in the 1990s; Tony Abbott’s new collab with James Murphy and the glorious reversion of Pauline Hanson to the One True...
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Ep. 34: The Donald Trump Interview
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Ep. 33: Cash 4 Commies
This week, the fell*s discuss the death of Graham “Richo” Richardson and John “Sponsor” Laws, and what this means for the era of “bloke” politics and aesthetics that they represented. We also chat about the coup of 1975, probably garbling some of the nuanced history that makes it such an...
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Ep. 32: Bowling for Columbo
The Battlers meet in the flesh again as Pat drifts East-side to look at the back of Andrew G’s head at Blue Mountain Writers Festival. A wild and rambling episode that covers the usual, but most importantly features a lengthy chat about 2025’s must watch TV: Columbo. Follow Straying for the…
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Ep. 31: 24 Hour Party Hacks
This week The Battlers discuss Albo’s scene cred (has he ever listened to Mark E. Latham?), the Trump and Albo craft beer summit, the undeniable wow factor of LNP wunderkind (37) James Paterson, and of course, the dire state of OzLit and Oz culture funding. Thanks as always to producer Dan Dare…
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Ep30: Suddenly 30 xox
It’s 30 episodes of Battlerdom, and the fellas are on a tredecennial tear. They talk Millenial culture, Stitch race science, Barnxit and the collapse of the Coalition, rightwing grifter meme politics, the Radio National top 100 colouring books of the 21st century, Israel’s Blood Meridian (Epstein...
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Ep 29– The Labubu Peace Accords
Ceasefire, all alone in the moonlight. Trump has saved the world and brought the Gazans back from the dead in their thousands. He has a stately pleasure dome decreed on the beleaguered strip. Meanwhile, Australian cookers are on the prowl and the patron saint of guys whose undies have lost their...
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Ep. 28: AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT! (Japanese Sopranos)
This week, the boys talk about the March of the far right across the world. Trump in Amerikkka; Farage in the UKKK and Hastie’s hasty march forward in AuSStralia. In unrelated news they have discovered a cure for autism, and all our fans are lesbians. Pat and Tim also unveil the FY25-26 plan for...
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