We wrap up the Spring Series 2021 — finally — by solving most of the world’s mysteries with journalist and all-round raconteur Andrew P Street.
We talk about many things including UFOs, a poo-eating dog, public health education in the times of both COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS, the magic of Gummi Worm Day, bad housekeeping, and the physical impossibility of eating more than four pancakes.
We also deliver some excellent ideas for political advertising.
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CONVERSATION TOPICS: Phillip Merrick, plus one person who chooses to remain anonymous.
THREE TRIGGER WORDS: Adam Baxter, Sheepie, and three people who choose to remain anonymous.
ONE TRIGGER WORD: Bede Kelleher, Bic Smith, David King, Frank Filippone, Gavin C, Jonathan Ferguson, Joop de Wit, Mark Newton, Michael Cowley, Mick Fong, Ric Hayman, Ross Nye, and four people who choose to remain anonymous.
FOOT SOLDIERS FOR MEDIA FREEDOM who gave a SLIGHTLY LESS BASIC TIP: David Heath, Errol Cavit, Garth Kidd, Katrina Szetey, Kimberley Heitman, Matt Bowden, Paris Lord, Peter Blakeley, Peter McCrudden, Ruben Schade, Susan Rankin, Tim Johns, and one person who chooses to remain anonymous.
MEDIA FREEDOM CITIZENS who contributed a BASIC TIP: Bob Ogden, Brenton Realph, Chris Scobell, Jason Anderson, Jason Anderson, Karletta A, Kate Carruthers, and one person who chooses to remain anonymous.
And another eight 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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This video explains that a COVID-19 vaccine is your best defence, and our only way forward. Now is the time to arm yourself and those you care about. To book your vaccination go to Australia.gov.au.
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The following video is a representation of severe COVID-19 illness.
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A television advertisement screened in Australia around 1987 to alert people to the dangers of AIDS. This advert has generated considerable controversy since, as the "grim reapers" in the ads - which were meant to symbolise HIV, were taken to symbolise gay men.
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The Grim Reaper is a 1987 Australian television commercial aimed at raising public awareness on the dangers of AIDS. Created as part of a $3 million education campaign by the National Advisory Committee on AIDS (NACAIDS), the advertisement depicted the Grim Reaper bowling in a bowling alley and knocking over men, women, and child "pins" which represented AIDS victims. The commercial first screened on 5 April 1987 and was highly controversial, one reason being that the Grim Reaper became identified with gay men.
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Australia. Department of Health, Housing and Community Services
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A message to the boneheads in the Murdoch media trying to undermine Premier Berejiklian: stop it. This is a public health emergency, not another front in your stupid bloody culture war. We must stop the spread to protect jobs, save lives and to spare people from long Covid. [Includes montage of Sky News Australia presenters.]
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Ray Hadley has blasted former 2GB colleague Alan Jones for the Sky News presenter’s “ridiculous stance” against the Sydney lockdown in an escalating war among rightwing media over the response to the pandemic.
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A year ago I dubbed the PM more middle management than leader. Hearing about his failure to deal with vaccines makers personally - given what it means for a closed off country and locked down NSW- he’s sounding more like Scotty from the mailroom.
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Madison Cawthorn says today that Biden’s plan to send people door to door to offer vaccines is really a plot to confiscate people’s bibles and guns.
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You know what the best bait for fishing for people with a sweet tooth is? If you guessed the gummy worm, you’re in the right place with the right sense of humor. Gummy candies have been around a while, but nothing strikes our fancy like a rich chocolate brownie topped with green frosting and a gummy work sticking out of it. But honestly, we’re happy to have them right out of the bag. Gummy Worm Day celebrates these stretchy, stringy, gummy, delicious treats.
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Mick Brown's video of the full song "Fuck You".
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Adelaide's Savas Caruso – aka Subblet Hammer – finds his set cut short following violation of an environment protection order.
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An innocent member of the community was unlawfully arrested with unnecessary physical force, thrown in a cell and held against his will for 3 days by SAPOL. They treated him like a dangerous criminal. All this for a non-indictable offense [sic]; a mere noise complaint. [Their description, probably not legally accurate.]
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Queens day Massacre, feel free too download and upload they will try remove this.[The arrest video]
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A dog ate some human faeces it found in Anstey Hill park while being walked. Within hours, he was extremely ill and tested positive to cannabis and methamphetamine. Details: https://bit.ly/2VgwIUf @TheCalebBond #TheAdvertiser
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It should have been a relaxing Sunday walk at Anstey Hill for Mallory Webber and her dog Jethro. But her curious pooch and his tendancy to eat kangaroo poo resulted in an urgent visit to the vet after inadvertently consuming human faeces containing illicit drugs.
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Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser ad from the 1999 republic referendum in Australia.
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Australian TV commercial featuring former prime minister Gough Whitlam talking in Italian, for Leggo's sauces. This ad continues with the theme of using well known celebrities, with Kate Fischer, Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Shane Warne, Kerry Armstrong and Martin Sacks appearing in other ads. This particular ad was recorded in December 2001.
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The earliest extant accounting records that follow the modern double-entry system in Europe come from Amatino Manucci, a Florentine merchant at the end of the 13th century.[8] Manucci was employed by the Farolfi firm and the firm's ledger of 1299–1300 evidences full double-entry bookkeeping. Giovannino Farolfi & Company, a firm of Florentine merchants headquartered in Nîmes, acted as moneylenders to the Archbishop of Arles, their most important customer.[9] Some sources[which?] suggest that Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici introduced this method for the Medici bank in the 14th century.
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Full contest footage of the 2016 World Pancake Eating Championship, held in Chico, CA at the Silver Dollar Fair.
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The US government can’t explain 143 of the 144 cases of unidentified flying objects reported by military planes, according to a highly anticipated intelligence report released Friday.
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Are there alien spacecraft flying above us? A highly anticipated government report sheds little light on the mystery, finding no evidence of extraterrestrial activity but not ruling it out either, according to two U.S. officials.
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Colin Norris, known to the South Australian media as “Mr UFO” was a colourful and controversial figure in the South Australian paranormal community. Mr Norris fashioned himself as a “UFO expert” and could often be found at the forefront of any media presentation about the subject during the 1980’s and 1990’s, but his story began much earlier than that.
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At long last, the Director of National Intelligence releases its findings about UFOs.
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Billionaire Richard Branson has fulfilled a life-long dream...flying to space in his own rocket ship and returning safely to earth. 7News U.S. Correspondent David Woiwod was in New Mexico and spoke with the ecstatic leader of space tourism.
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A message from Amazon
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The criteria for what constitutes human spaceflight vary, with some focus on the point where the atmosphere becomes so thin that centrifugal force, rather than aerodynamic force, carries a significant portion of the weight of the flight object. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) Sporting Code for astronautics recognizes only flights that exceed the Kármán line, at an altitude of 100 kilometers (62 mi). In the United States, professional, military, and commercial astronauts who travel above an altitude of 50 miles (80 km) are awarded astronaut wings.
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"To all you kids down there..." - Richard Branson's message from zero gravity. #Unity22
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