How Good Are Humans
Isaac McCarthy
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About This Podcast
The How Good Are Humans podcast is here to show you the good people in the world, those who go above and beyond the call of duty to better the community around them.
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S7E5 Keeping stories from the maw of the memory hole | Rob Fadaely, Pearls Books 'n Music
Humans need stories. We are stories, each of us, and some of our stories are so great they've been written down. Others have invented stories, be they allegorical or pure fiction, for no reason more…
S7E4 Bringing in the Billions | Jennifer Spilsbury and Advance Cairns
Bridges, roads and railways don't just appear out of thin air, and the government doesn't walk around tossing wads of cash into a city's letterbox. Someone has to not only ask for it, but put their…
S7E3 A Thousand Things to Think About | Matt Smith
It's a tough time to become a politician in Australia. Housing supply is short and prices are high, the climate is changing but society still can't agree why or what to do about it, cost of living is…
S7E2 From bodybuilding champ to brain surgery and back again | Adriana Huyser
Starting a gym routine can be confusing and daunting. Many people still believe a gym is only good for stripping weight or getting uselessly buff, that real fitness is not built under barbells. Even…
S7E1 The man nobody expected to stare down a Prime Minister for gay rights | Warren Entsch
Warren Entsch served in Australia's federal parliament for almost three decades. He worked with half a dozen Prime Ministers and witnessed the passage of some of the nation's greatest shifts in…
S6E23 Politics in 2025: the good, the bad and the ugly | Anna Middleton
Anna Middleton was elected as the Division 7 councillor to Cairns Regional Council in 2024 as an unaligned and independent candidate with a low budget, grassroots effort, beating other candidates…
S6E22 To be an angel on the shoulder or the thorn in the side of government, that is the question | Bronwyn Opie and Cafnec
Bronwyn Opie is the director of the Cairns and Far North Environment Centre, a leading Queensland advocacy organisation for climate change action and ecological conservation.
S6E21 Talking to thousands, everyday | Adam Stephen
Adam Stephen is a journalist and radio presenter who has hosted ABC Queensland's regional Drive radio program for twelve years, a weekday show now broadcast to three-quarters of Australia's second…
S6E20 Sex, drugs, swastikas, transgender life and surfing fistfights — an artist's journey | Atlantis Lewis
Atlantis is an artist whose story is equal parts amazing and terrifying. Just listen, ok.
S6E19 Getting drunk with Sir David Attenborough | Dr Martin Cohen
Martin is a zoologist and ecologist based in Cairns, Far North Queensland, as well as a tour guide that has led wildlife tours in places such as Antarctica and Africa. On this episode, Martin and I…
S6E18 Fighting Against the Fun Police | Outback Mike
Mike Atkinson is an adventurer and film maker who was a finalist on the first season of Alone Australia. He has had a career in the military as an aviator and survival instructor and has since turned…
S6E17 Gettin' some 'Straya in ya belly, yum yum | Samantha "The Bush Tukka Woman" Martin
To walk into Coles or Woolworths is a step into a foreign land. Row upon row, aisle upon aisle, an abundance of food, will sit before our eyes. Some, maybe most of it, has been grown or produced in…
S6E16 Finding the next Cathy Freeman | Libby Cook-Black and the Female Co
If professional sporting success was a 100m racetrack, the starting blocks being discovery of the sport and the finish line being a major sports contract, the track ahead would appear totally…
S6E15 Brewing great coffee in an uncertain world | Olly James (part 2)
Dining out can be the most delightful, satiating experience of our week, or our most disappointing. We all know the feeling of being promised the world on a menu but discovering we’ve been catfished…
S6E14 Turning Men's Lives Around | Bernard "BJ" Sabadi and Kunjur Men's Collective
Finding mental health support can be an expensive, inaccessible and intimidating experience. This experience is additionally difficult for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. And men are…
S6E13 Giving the economy a solid (and thoughtful) kick up the butt | Professor Hurriyet Babacan
When an economy has a lot of potential to grow, but is also stalked by a fair risk of stall and decline, it takes experienced thought leaders, regional development experts and policy wonks to gently,…
S6E12 From Bob Marley to near murder, and other cycling stories | Tilmann Waldthaler
Tilmann Waldthaler has cycled more than 600,000km through 143 countries. He has spent hours in conversation with Bob Marley, been almost murdered and bombed in Iran, and met the love of his life in…
S6E11 Getting the shot, in brothels, refugee camps and disaster zones | photojournalism | Brian Cassey
For more than 40 years Brian Cassey has watched suffering, tragedy, hope, elation and thrill through a few curved glass elements, waiting for moments of greatest importance and nearest perfect…
S6E10 From stab wounds to skin cancers, and everything in between | Dr Ebbie Swemmer
In a slow week, Dr Ebbie Swemmer examines the skins of dozens of patients, performs many surgeries and saves people from the horrible fate of melanomas and other aggressive skin cancers. In a busy…
S6E9 Queensland's thin blue line | AC Brett Schafferius and Sgt Lyall McKelvie
On episode 52 of the podcast, I speak with Assistant Commissioner Brett Schafferius and Sergeant Lyall McKelvie from the Far North Queensland police district about several police and crime topics.…
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How Good Are Humans has published 72 episodes since August 2020, covering topics in Documentary, Health & Fitness.
How Good Are Humans is currently highly active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 1h 12m.
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