Today’s guest in the End of Spring Series 2020 is the wonderful Andrew P Street — author, columnist, journalist, voice-person, and renown mink-canceller.
We talk about many things including the relative merits of two opposing rat-based scenarios, a “translucently pale man”, sex parties in Brussels, the wrong kind of war crimes, Australia’s relationship with China, COVID-19, the nature of democracy, cancel culture, Pete Evans, some inevitable racism, why we need someone to blame, and why compliance is violence. No, apparently it is.
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THREE TRIGGER WORDS: Christopher Neal, John Lindsay, Joop de Wit, Rami, Wyld, and two people who choose to remain anonymous.
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And another 11 people chose to have no reward, even though some of them were the most generous of all.
Episode Links
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A haphazard site by and about APS
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I'm an author, journalist, columnist and failed indie rock star. I live and work in Adelaide, Australia, although when I first wrote this bit "Adelaide" was spelled "Sydney", and I've written two books on politics and one on music, as well as writing for the Sydney Morning Herald, the Guardian, the ABC, Rolling Stone, Cosmos, the Monthly, Time Out, NME, Elle, and pretty much anyone else with a freelance budget. Following the release of my most recent book The Long and Winding Way To The Top: Fifty (or so) Songs That Made Australia I've drifted back into writing about music, at least for the time being. But a part of my heart belongs to the noble art of getting snarky about politics, as befits my first two books - The Short & Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott and The Curious Story of Malcolm Turnbull: the Incredible Shrinking Man in the Top Hat.
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Writing guy that does all the writing, and author of several book-things. Opinions expressed are yours.
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Author, columnist, journalist, voice-person
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József Szájer, who announced his resignation as an MEP on Sunday, has admitted to being the politician at the centre of the Brussels sex party scandal that occurred last Friday evening.
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József Szájer, a senior member of the Fidesz party who helped write Hungary’s constitution in 2011, was one of about 20 people, mainly men and including at least two EU diplomats, who attended a party held near the Grand Place in the Belgian capital’s historical centre on Friday evening.
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Orban’s Hungarian government has curtailed LGBTQ rights since he was elected prime minister in 2010. Szajer, who fronted Fidesz in the European Parliament, helped rewrite Hungary’s constitution to “protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman,” The Times of London reported. Szajer, a right-wing politician and ally of Orban, climbed out a first-floor window and was spotted “fleeing along the gutter,” the public prosecutor’s office said. A source close to the investigation told Politico that officers were called after a complaint about a “night-time disturbance.”
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The unidentified witness saw the half-naked priest having sex with the two women, who were dressed in corsets and high-heeled boots. The altar was also adorned with stage lighting, several sex toys, and a cellphone mounted on a tripod that was recording the act. The witness took video footage of the unholy trinity, then called police.
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Proving that love is blind, and sometimes kooky, a bodybuilder from Kazakhstan has tied the knot with his dearly beloved — a sex doll he dated for eight months before proposing a year ago.
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In his strongest comments on any Chinese government action since he became Prime Minister, a visibly angry Mr Morrison said the Chinese government should be "totally ashamed of the post", accused the Communist Party of being immature and said he hoped this "awful event may lead to a reset" in the relationship.
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The Streisand effect is a social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of further publicizing that information, often via the Internet.
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The Cod Wars (Icelandic: Þorskastríðin, "the cod wars", or Landhelgisstríðin, "the wars for the territorial waters") were a series of 20th century confrontations between the United Kingdom and Iceland about fishing rights in the North Atlantic. Each of the disputes ended with an Icelandic victory.
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Australian wine will be featured at a White House holiday reception this week. Pity vino lovers in China who, due to Beijing’s coercive tariffs on Aussie vintners, will miss out. #AussieAussieAussieOiOiOi!
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We stand in solidarity with #Australia by serving #FreedomWine at @MOFA_Taiwan. #StrongerTogether
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Yellow Tail (stylised [ yellow tail ]) is an Australian brand of wine produced by Casella Family Brands. Yellow Tail as well as Casella Family Brands as a whole are both based in Yenda, New South Wales.
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Just had a large group over to lunch and we hugged and ate and talked and put the world to rights. It was lovely. You’ll never take that away from people. Stay out. Protect your rights. If the @nhs can’t cope, then the @nhs isn’t fit for purpose. Compliance is violence.
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[waving a spotlight from my balcony] Look, if the RAF can't take care of Goering that's their problem, not mine.
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She savaged a man for ‘breaching’ mandatory quarantine and sparking an urgent health alert, then Nicola Spurrier made a stunning about-face.
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Incident postmortems focused on growth – without the blame game
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have a geez at what appears to anti-masker in suburban Adelaide loudly singing and playing a conspiracy anthem from his garage in underwear and converse that's going a bit viral on Facebook
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I spent a week there and most places didn't even have hand sanitizer. As I said at the time after exasperated conversations with family members, SA had *clearly* convinced themselves that COVID-19 was an Eastern States thing that didn't affect them.
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Let’s be honest, SA has had it pretty good, swanning around maskless and fancy-free, writes Andrew P Street. But this week we were reminded that the virus isn’t taking the holidays off – and everything really can go to hell (and to panic-buying) in a matter of hours.
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Culled animals emerging from the ground due to decomposition gases sparked morbid jokes about an invasion of "zombie killer mink", which, many argued, wouldn't surprise anybody in 2020.
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Gasser får aflivede mink til at svulme op og trænge op igennem jordoverfladen.
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When images of bloodied feet swept across the internet earlier this month, author John Birmingham took notice.
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Lara Trump still thinks her father-in-law will serve four more years. Totally bonkers.
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Poll watcher in Michigan testifying that black lives matter people wore rhinestones. This was a problem for her. [And many other tweets.]
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Poll watcher in Michigan testifying that black lives matter people wore rhinestones. This was a problem for her. [Archived version of the twitter thread at #28.]
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As the Trump Epoch slouches to a conclusion, it’s becoming more and more evident just how badly everyone overestimated him. After years of being assured by an endless parade of factotums, toadies and Russian Twitter bots that he’s actually playing nine-dimensional chess and that the true reckoning of his brilliance is right around the corner, it’s looking like there’s not going to be any twist ending and that maybe, just maybe, he really was the doddering dotard of our first impressions.
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Meanwhile... over at Fox News, @seanhannity says the quiet part out loud.
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This was in just a 14 day period and it doesn’t include Facebook labeling *every* single post. #StopTheBias [Mike Hahn is Director of Social Media for @TeamTrump.]
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Rudolph W. Giuliani, who is promoting baseless claims of widespread election fraud, talked about a pardon with President Trump as recently as last week.
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Sky News host Andrew Bolt says controversial celebrity chef Pete Evans "does not deserve a stage" and he has "no respect for those who did give him one", believing he requires help rather than attention.
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Pete Evans needs a new career, and One Nation needs an electoral lifeline. Let’s consider the possibility of a political match made in reality star hell.
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Pauline Hanson has savaged Qantas’s plan to refuse passengers who don’t get a COVID vaccination, saying she had “no intention” of getting one and claiming without evidence that “I probably don’t need it anyway”.
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The 33-year-old survivor was waiting for a bus at East 183rd Street near Third Avenue in late October when the ground beneath him suddenly collapsed. Shoulders was then swallowed whole by the sidewalk abyss, plummeting at least 12 feet into a dark and narrow vault filled with rats, according to the suit. Somehow, it gets worse.
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Mick Brown's video of the full song "Fuck You".
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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.