Cheeky Enlightenment: Ridiculous Sacred Stories with Alice Fraser 🌏🤣❤️‍🔥🐦‍🔥

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There are guests who make you laugh, and then there are guests who make you wake up laughing.
Comedian, writer, and philosopher-in-disguise Alice Fraser does both.

When she steps into the Moped Outlaws ride, she brings the kind of presence that feels half-monk, half-mischievous-trickster — the kind of person who can talk about the Holocaust, motherhood, and capitalism’s hand-dryers all in one breath, and somehow make it holy.

Greg opens by recalling the first time he saw Alice on stage — that legendary TED Talk moment when the transition video failed to play and she followed a burn-trauma survivor cold. “You were expecting a cosmic buffer,” he says, “but instead you walked straight into the fire.” Alice laughs. “No one will ever accuse me of having lived half a life,” she replies — and from there the conversation rides that rare edge where comedy and mortality meet.

Fraser’s life is threaded with the improbable: a grandmother who survived the Holocaust, a mother whose multiple sclerosis ended a musical dream, and a daughter determined never to take the next five years for granted. She jokes that it might be “urgency dressed as anxiety,” but beneath the grin is a philosophy of radical presence. “You can stop living long before you die,” she tells us. “So I just don’t plan too far ahead.”

As the talk unfolds, laughter turns into an X-ray. Alice describes touring with an infant, writing while pregnant, and realizing the road-dog comedy grind was built “for young men whose parents still pay for petrol.” Her honesty slices through the glamour. She’s not railing against the system so much as revealing how absurd it is — and how absurdity itself can be a kind of grace.

Marc, ever the soulful provocateur, challenges her to think bigger: “You’re Monty Python for the twenty-first century,” he says. “Comedy as nutrient.” She blushes under the compliment — “I don’t know how to process that level of affection; I’m Australian” — but the truth hangs there: she’s already doing it. From her Amazon Prime special, SAVAGE, to her “Tea with Alice” podcast and her gleefully silly book A Passion for Passion, Fraser turns personal chaos into cultural medicine.

What emerges in this episode is a theology of humor. She riffs on the “victim mentality” with a philosopher’s precision and a comedian’s timing, arguing that power, offense, and compassion are contextual — that our job isn’t to flatten human complexity but to face it with wit intact. “You want to change the world?” she shrugs. “You’ve got to do the fucking work, man.”

It’s cheeky enlightenment in action: finding the sacred in the ridiculous, and the ridiculous in the sacred.

By the end, we’re all a little lighter — not because life is easier, but because Alice reminds us that laughter is a spiritual technology. It’s how we metabolize heartbreak, injustice, and the unbearable beauty of being here at all.

And when Greg asks the traditional closer — “Eminem or Foo Fighters?” — she grins:

Depends on the mood. Sometimes I’m in an Eminem mood, sometimes a Foo Fighters mood. It’s just vibes, man.

That, perhaps, is her gospel: vibe with life. Take nothing for granted. Laugh at the cosmic joke before it laughs at you.

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