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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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Booking probability
32%
Guest openness
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe 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.
How Good Are Humans is hosted by Isaac McCarthy. The show has published 75 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Can we end rape? | Reclaim the Night" (20 October 2026, 53 minutes), "Rebuilding what’s been destroyed | Treeforce Cairns" (17 August 2026, 77 minutes), and "Feminism in a changing world | Jacqueline Maley" (2 August 2026, 62 minutes).
How Good Are Humans publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 89 minutes across 75 episodes.
Booking probability for How Good Are Humans is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. How Good Are Humans requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. How Good Are Humans's contact route on record: public web form.
Isaac McCarthy hosts How Good Are Humans, a news podcast with 75 episodes published.
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Episode #8
One in five Australian women will suffer sexual violence in their life. Statistically, among your mother, sister, wife, grandmother and daughter, at least one of them is likely to be, or has been, raped. It's a...
Episode #7
Why would we cut down trees? Trees filter the air and exhale the oxygen we breath, sequester carbon and store it in the soil, clean the soil of pollutants and excess nitrogen, reduce urban heat, bring rainfall and...
Episode #6
Feminism achieved colossal triumphs in the 19th and 20th centuries after fierce battles for legal, social and economic equalities. The right to vote, the right to work, the right to divorce, the right to equal pay and...
Episode #5
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 than brewing and...
Episode #4
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 reputation on the...
Episode #3
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 on everyone's minds...
Episode #2
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 if a newbie takes a...
Episode #1
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 social and economic...
Episode #23
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 with more cash and more...
Episode #22
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.
Episode #21
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 largest and third most...
Episode #20
Atlantis is an artist whose story is equal parts amazing and terrifying. Just listen, ok.
Episode #19
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 speak about...
Episode #18
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 his attention to...
Episode #17
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 Australia, but nearly...
Episode #16
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 different for a young girl...
Episode #15
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 when the plate...
Episode #14
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 doggedly reluctant to...
Episode #13
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, or firmly, guide...
Episode #12
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 the middle of the...
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columnist and senior writer at The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
Managing Director – Technology, Transformation and CIO practices, South Africa's Winter Olympic cross country skier
Educational Expert, Innovative Teaching Solutions
Geography Teacher and Sustainability Coordinator, Cairns and Far North Environment Center
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