The Sh*t Show: is your retirement safe? Are you sure?

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Sh\*t Show, we’ve all enjoyed the break. For the remainder of the year, we’re planning on doing a show once a month, but we’ll focus on one big topic that impacts all of us. This month it’s retirement, and we’re going to get into the details on the risks we face and what we can do about it.  We won’t be looking at it just from the perspective of how to prepare and afford retirement – we’re sure you’ve got an expert to help you there. No, we’ll be looking at risks to pensions due to the planetary crisis, the fragility of our economies because of pension pressures, what people closer to retirement should be thinking about, including those already in retirement, and we’ll also look at the younger generation – will they even have a pension as the planetary crisis gets worse? Then again, should we retire at all? No other living being on the planet retires, what makes us special?  There is no doubt that affording retirement is a massive issue for many people, especially as the social safety net continues to crumble around the world, with birth rates plummeting in practically every nation on earth, and when looking at it from all perspectives of the polycrisis, retirement is one of the big elephants in the room no one wants to discuss, but we should be discussing it.  We’ll then discuss three big pieces of news, starting with the devastating destruction in Nepal and Tibet, asking if we should even rebuild in an area where this will happen again (and again, and again). Then it’s onto the US hitting $40 trillion in debt, the Iran war, and more - what does it all really mean for the global economy and us? Then we have the Hugging Face AI scandal – are we too late to rein in AI? Three big news items, and yes, some of what we say will be uncomfortable – but that’s the time we are living in.  If you care about your future, this is a must-listen, so come and join us, and bring your friends. We’ll be going live Friday, 4th September 2026, kicking off at 8am UK, 9am EU, 11am UAE, 12.30pm IN, 2pm TH, 3pm SG, 5pm AEST. Streaming across various locations, and no doubt about it, we’d love your support.  The Sh\*t Show is a Livestream happening on the first Friday of every month for now, where Andrea T Edwards, Dr. David Ko, Richard Busellato and Joe Augustin, as well as special guests, discuss the world’s most pressing issues across all angles of the polycrisis, working to make sense of the extremely challenging and complex times we are all going through, plus what we can do about it. Help us move the needle so we can change the name of the show to something more genteel when (or if) it is no longer a sh\*t show.  #TheShitShow #UncommonCourage  You can find me Andrea T Edwards | The Digital Conversationalist and Welcome - Uncommon Courage - An Invitation.  My book Uncommon Courage, an invitation, is here https://mybook.to/UncommonCourage  My book 18 Steps to an All-Star LinkedIn Profile, is here https://mybook.to/18stepstoanallstar