There’s terror in Australia’s suburbs. But fear not. Attorney-General the Honourable Senator George “Soapy the Ankle” Brandis QC is on the case. And Bob Garfield speaks true wisdom.
In this podcast, there’s talk of trains, bombs, terrorism, conspiracies, more bombs, and more trains.
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Episode Credits
- Melbourne teen charged with terror plot, Sky News, 9 May 2015.
- Senate debates: Question without Notice: National Security, 11 May 2015.
- Bob Garfield audio grab from Lexicon Valley episode 59, Attention Southerners: Here’s Why You Love Seersucker, 4 May 2015.
- Wikipedia entries for the New South Wales Xplorer railcars and XPT trains and The Ghan.
- Suicide is ACT’s second most common cause of injury death, AIHW report shows, The Canberra Times, 11 May 2015.
- You can find Nicholas Fryer on Twitter.
- Subscribe to 5at5.
- Media mogul John Singleton fined for violent outburst, Nine News, 13 May 2015.
- Noiseworks’ “No Lies”, via YouTube.
- Police to issue Criminal Infringement Notice over Woolloomooloo incident, NSW Police, 13 May 2015.
- Establishment Propaganda Downplays Danger of Jade Helm, The Alex Jones Channel, via YouTube.
- Everything That’s Mind-Boggling About the Texas Jade Helm Panic, War is Boring, 7 May 2015.
- Albury Apex Cambodia Support ’15 project. GIVE THEM MONEY.
- Wikipedia entry for the B-25 Empire State Building crash, 28 July 1945.
- Newsreel footage, 1945 Airplane Crashes Into The Empire State Building Killing 14, via YouTube.
- Free Agent, Decca Aitkenhead’s interview with former MI5 chief Stella Rimington, The Guardian, 18 October 2008.
- Wikipedia entry for Pipe bomb.
Series Credits
- The 9pm Edict theme by mansardian via The Freesound Project.
- Edict fanfare by neonaeon, via The Freesound Project.
- Elephant Stamp theme by Joshua Mehlman.
- Photograph of the Trinity atmospheric nuclear test, July 1945, by the US Government via Wikimedia Commons.
Update 14 May 2015: Edited to add further references.
[Photo: Royal Visit 1954 — Central Station, being a photo of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip on the royal train at Central Railway Station, Sydney, 9 February 1954. Photo from State Records NSW’s gallery Railways and Railway Stations.]