In this episode Snarky Platypus and I taste test the new Arnott’s Shapes Aussie Legends crackers, and we hear how bots and trolls are spreading disinformation about Australia’s unprecedented bushfires.
You’ll hear about climate change, disinformation, election curiosities, artificial flavours, how you’re probably useless as far as politics goes, and how one brand of processed “cheese” slices contains a minimum 41% cheese.
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Episode Links
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Fox News host suggests that the Aussie fires are the media's fault.
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A public feud erupted between the PSA and NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro after he said the department’s failure to perform proper hazard reduction burns contributed to the bushfire tragedy.
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Once again, catastrophic bushfire conditions are bearing down on communities during increasingly horrific summers in Australia.
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The Israeli public broadcaster has come under fire from angry listeners after broadcasting an interview with Tony Abbott in which he said the world was “in the grip of a climate cult”.
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This fifth, biennial State of the Climate report draws on the latest monitoring, science and projection information to describe variability and changes in Australia’s climate.
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Australia is caught in a climate spiral. For the past few decades, the arid and affluent country of 25 million has padded out its economy—otherwise dominated by sandy beaches and a bustling service sector—by selling coal to the world.
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To read or watch or listen to the conservative press in Australia is to get an altogether different story: that it's arson, not climate change, that's mainly responsible for the deaths of nearly 30 humans and an estimated one billion animals.
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PM Scott Morrison told @abcnews even if #Australia shut all its coal power stations, the impact on climate change would be minimal because of China. But... Australia emits far more per person than China. And what about emissions from exports?
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Research from QUT shows that 'some kind of a disinformation campaign' is pushing the Twitter hashtag #ArsonEmergency. There is no arson emergency.
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In the first week of 2020, hashtag #ArsonEmergency became the focal point of a new online narrative surrounding the bushfire crisis.
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Map of 379k tweets from 190k accounts on Aus bushfires and arson. The narrative that arsonists (and not climate change) are responsible for the crisis is being pushed by the larger (international) community on the right. (Start of a thread.)
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15 January 1797. The first top hat was worn in public by John Hetherington, a London haberdasher.
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“The bongs cost £500,000… but we’re working up a plan so that people can bung a bob for a Big Ben bong”
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I’ve rounded up the (unofficial) top 25 truly Aussie foods you have to try during your visit.
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While locals dine on fried rice, Thai curries, Mediterranean cuisine and the like, those dishes don't really belong to Australia. They're part of multicultural Australia but are often claimed by other nations.
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If you’re traveling around Australia, I’m sure that you will come across some typical Australian food. While you’re here you really should try some of it! From meat you don’t normally find in other supermarkets to chocolate biscuits, to the most common Australian food you should try even though, in my opinion, you probably shouldn’t because some of it is disgusting (Vegemite I’m looking at you!)
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"This summer, meet our newest Aussie legend, Shapes VEGEMITE & Cheese - genius!" (Original TV commercial from December 2018.
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Coon cheese is named after its American creator, Edward William Coon (1871–1934) of Philadelphia, who patented a method, subsequently known as the Cooning process, for fast maturation of cheese via high temperature and humidity.
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Among the creative assets making up the multi-channel, media-led campaign was pre-roll video and TVC footage for the sausage sizzle flavoured biscuits featuring a map of Australia dotted with weber BBQs. The pattern was similar to maps of Australia used to reflect bushfire coverage across the country.
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I was described as a monster and accused of dividing a nation, but I stand by my way of achieving barbecue perfection
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POLL: Which is the greater food crime? Arnott’s Shapes in Meat Pie and Sausage Sizzle flavours? Or Adam Liaw’s lengthwise bread slide with sausage?
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This crowd cheering as Trump makes up a promise that he’s giving people better dishwashers so they don’t have to wash their dishes ten times is something else.
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In a new book, Politics Is For Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change, Hersh explores what it takes to get engaged and examines who is responsible for broken politics. He and Brooke talk about the lessons he's learned from organizers around the country, and what civic engagement really mean. (Hint: it's not about scrolling through Twitter.)
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This advertisement for Holden cars was first broadcast on Australian television during the 1970s.
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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.
[Photo: The recording setup for this episode’s Taste Test segments, 17 January 2020.]