The 9pm Edict – Stilgherrian

08 July 202308 July 2023

The 9pm Edict podcast: This is whaddyawant, apparently

For the last few weeks I’ve been collecting your thoughts about the kind of podcasts you’d like me to make. Here are the results.

21 June 202324 June 2023

The 9pm Bad Nasi Goreng Makes the Merlion Sad with Snarky Platypus

Photo of a faded booklet page, "Rice cookery is space -age. Now this classic rice dish can be your speciality," and a photo of a Sunbeam electric frypan containing alleged nasa goring as discussed in the podcast. Also, a photo of the booklet cover and a platypus. — Alleged nasi goreng in a Sunbeam frypan, and (inset) the cover of “1966 Rice Recipes from the Rice Marketing Board Cookery Bureau. (Photo: Stilgherrian) Also, a profile pic of Snarky Platypus. (Photo: Supplied)

Stilgherrian is joined by Snarky Platypus, who’s recently returned to the socials after a two-year break, for a long conversation about everything from food to conspiracy theories to stupid names for Sydney suburbs. Quite a lot about food, actually.

18 June 202318 June 2023

Rhymes with Sasquatch | Pilot

The pilot episode of potential weekly podcast of news and opinion about Elon Musk, the world’s most annoying billionaire.

17 June 2023

The 9pm Death of Political Journalism

Some random ABC News-related signage at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s headquarters in Ultimo, Sydney. (Photo: Stilgherrian)

Stilgherrian returns with a solo episode of the Edict in which he has quite a long rant about some of the changes at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. But there’s more.

13 May 202313 May 2023

The 9pm Extra: Vertical Hold episode 428, “Is Google’s Pixel 7a a winner, How is the budget fighting cybercrime?”

The Bluesky Social home page as of 13 May 2023. (Screenshot: Stilgherrian) Inset: Vertical Hold podcast profile image. (Supplied)

Google’s Pixel 7a is here (as is Google I/O), but is the Pixel 7a a worthwhile phone? How is Australia’s Federal budget fighting scammers and cybercrime? Are blue skies already turning grey at Bluesky Social? I was on this week’s Vertical Hold: Behind The Tech News and this is an updated version.

04 May 202307 May 2023

The 9pm Public House Forum 7 LIVE

Your host Stilgherrian, cartoonist Cathy Wilcox, and satirist Mark Humphries at the recording of Pubic House Forum 7 at the Royal Exhibition Hotel on 29 April 2023. (Photo: @oberonsghost)

In the first Pubic House Forum episode of the The 9pm Edict since 2018, I was joined by Sydney Morning Herald cartoonist Cathy Wilcox and satirist Mark Humphries at Sydney’s Royal Exhibition Hotel in Surry Hills with an enthusiastic live audience.

There’s also a video of this episode on YouTube.