- 44
- Episodes
- 4
- Transcribed
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About The Actual
The Actual is a podcast for the ever-changing times we live in. Since October 7 2023, our devices are constantly flooded with misinformation and disinformation from a multitude of unreliable sources - including social media, mainstream news agencies, as well as targeted and sophisticated propaganda machinery. The result of this is an increase in antisemitism worldwide, the elevation of extremist voices, with once relatively peaceful countries polarising with increasingly hateful divisions. And this is where this podcast, The Actual, comes in. Each episode, host Lissy Abrahams, has discussions with informed and courageous guests to explore the crucial events that reshape our humanitarian and geopolitical landscapes. These conversations are unique, psychologically astute, and necessary for navigating our rapidly changing world by cutting through the tsunami of misinformation, disinformation and noise to focus on what’s actually happening.
- Publisher
- Lissy Abrahams
- Category
- news · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 Aug 2025
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
4 of 44 episodes have a transcript.
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep 43: The Radical Centre - It's time to Listen to Regular Australians with Mark Leach
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep 42: A Father's Story of Love, Grief, & Honour of Matilda Bee with Michael Britvan
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep 41: The Future of Israel Is a Question of Responsibility with Matan Yaffe
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Ep 43: The Radical Centre - It's time to Listen to Regular Australians with Mark Leach
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Now, there may be – But I think, you know, I think it's not psychosis. It's not a diagnosed mental illness. It's choices to believe evil ideas that then get enacted in our own choices and then they amplify themselves. And then they get embedded and amplified in cultural expressions over generations, right? So, yeah, yeah, that's. And you either, it's good and evil, like the line between good and evil lies goes straight through every human heart. That's what the Torah teaches us. It's not like I'm all good and you're all bad. That fundamental splitting in psychodynamic terms doesn't work, right? […]
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- Michael Britvan
- Matan Yaffe
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