The 9pm Edict – Page 3

29 January 2026

The 9pm 57 Varieties of Thai with Erin Cook

A white woman with her long brown hair tied back wears a yellow and black top, sunglasses, and a smile like the Mona Lisa. Behind her stretches out a view of a tropical landscape and, eventually, the ocean. It?s Erin Cook! — Erin Cook stands tall over South-East Asia. (Photo: Supplied).

With Thailand’s general election just over a week away, I figured it’s time once more to chat with journalist Erin Cook, who specialises in South-East Asia. But as always we talk about much more than just Thailand.

15 January 202609 June 2026

The 9pm Unnatural Act with a Pig with Patrick Stokes

A middle-aged white man with a greying beard and neat black spectacles wears a black collarless top. He looks at the camera with thoughtful scepticism. — Patrick Stokes is watching you, and thinking. (Photo: Supplied)

Don’t let the title put you off, nor attract you too eagerly. The 9pm Summer Series 2025 continues with philosopher, reprobate, and all-round cleverthinker Patrick Stokes, and a conversation about many, many things. He’s also half of The Fake McCoys.

31 December 202503 January 2026

The 9pm Full-time Bingo Card Update 2025 with Snarky Platypus

Illustrative stock imagery of a bingo card and bingo player stamps, with an inset image of a random platypus. — *Main image by* Rudonni *via Pixabay. Foreground bingo card originally by Milton Bradley Company,* photo by Abby Hendrickson *under a* CC-BY 2.0 Generic *license. Platypus inset photo by Taronga Conservation Society Australia / Chris Wheeler. Digital composition by Stilgherrian.*

Back at the start of the year, my good friend Snarky Platypus and I created a bingo card for 2025. A set of 25 things that might happen. Well, it’s now New Year’s Eve, so let’s see how we went. And let’s create a 2026 Bingo Card.

18 December 202518 December 2025

The 9pm Slop Bowl of Discourse with Snarky Platypus

On a drab metal tray sits a white plastic plate piled with stuff including lettuce and dribbles of an unidentifiable brown sauce, a brown paper bag printed with the slogan â€œ[Our] chips are lovingly crafted for [something out of sight]â€, and a paper cup labelled â€œChipotle Mexican Grillâ€. In the bottom left corner thereâ€™s an inset photo of a platypus. — *Chicken burrito bowl with tortilla chips and drink at Chipotle, August 2022, by* *Sarah Stierch*/Wikipedia Commons, used under a CC BY 4.0 license. Platypus inset photo by Taronga Conservation Society Australia / Chris Wheeler. Digital composition by Stilgherrian..

I like food. My good friend Snarky Platypus also likes food. And we also like wine. But we also have opinions. So in this final episode of the spring series we bring you some of those opinions.

03 December 202503 December 2025

The 9pm Social Media Ban and the Special Duck with Justin Warren

Close-up photo of middle-aged white man with neatly-trimmed grey stubble and black-rimmed spectacles. He wears an open-necked white collared shirt and a black jacket — *Justin Warren looks quite respectable when he tries. (Photo: Supplied)*

It’s just one week until Australia’s controversial social media age restrictions come into force, so I decided to chat with Justin Warren, noted â€œconsultant, freedom of information tragic, hexagon enthusiast, and creator of the CyberRatingâ„¢ labelling schemeâ€.

28 November 202528 November 2025

The 9pm Miracle Medical Reality with Dr Trent Yarwood

A middle-aged white man in a black t-shirt stands in front of some tropical tree or other, smiling, with his hands clasped behind his back. His hair is brown, as is his beard. He wears spectacles . The t-shirt has a green print in the style of, and indeed taken from, an old video game called Oregon Trail. It shows a covered wagon and the text: You Have Died of Dysentery. — *Dr Trent Yarwood wears the uniform of his people. (Photo: Cassandra Yarwood, The Time Thief Photography)*

Earlier this month I saw several news stories about new antibiotics, some even developed with AI. Miracle medical breakthrough, or not? Why not ask infectious diseases physician and overall medtech nerd Dr Trent Yarwood?