Critics to interview

The Static Web Site’s first episode was on January 1, 1999, in a vain attempt to make the world hear the off-kilter and sophomoric ramblings of Miles Tidal and Bob LeMent. Now 24 years and counting they continue their weekly stream-of-consciousness dialogues. As you may have discerned from listening, we do no preparation or use any manners or decorum to provide a fully improvised piece of comedy. Enjoy.

Kathryn Brown Ramsperger is the multi-award-winning author of three novels, Moments On The Edge, The Shores Of Our Souls, and A Thousand Flying Things. Her journalism and international humanitarian careers have influenced her writing, and her work has appeared in many notable publications, from Nat Geo to Kiplinger, from The MacGuffin to Thought Catalog. She's also the podcast host of "Story Hour," where she interviews international, social justice, and multicultural authors like herself. She loves being on the other side of the mic discussing topics in her books such as international communication, the rules of war, multicultural relationships and families, and how to find peace and love in the midst of conflict and war. She is currently working on a memoir, a riches to rags and back again story about how she overcame sudden childhood poverty, homelessness, and her mother's early onset Parkinson's disease, to find the life she has today. A speaker's sheet is available upon request. Contact her through her website contact page.

Talk to me about how employers and employees can build positive hiring to retiring relationships. I have been working in HR and development since 1981. My passion is making work and working life better. I believe that the only way to create great experiences of work and employment is to help employers and employees to understand each other better. We need to get the basics right and then build organisations that are great places to work. Employers need to know how to build hiring to retiring relationships with their employees. Employees need to understand how to be good employees.

I’m Wendy Syfret, a Melbourne based writer, editor, and author of The Sunny Nihilist: How a Meaningless Life Can Make You Truly Happy (Profile) and How to Think Like an Activist (Hardie Grant). Currently I’m serving as editor-in-chief of RIISE. Formerly, I worked as the Managing editor of VICE Asia. Before taking on that role I was the Head of Editorial for VICE Australia, Australian editor of pioneering fashion publication i-D, and associate editor at VICE.com.