Tonight is the end of official winter in Australia, although spring has already arrived in the Blue Mountains. So to mark the end (almost) of the Late Winter Series of this podcast, the recording of this episode was streamed live.
You’ll hear about one American’s plan to solve the evacuation from Afghanistan, the worst news story ever written, risk calculations and COVID-19, and Wilson’s Law of the Internet. There’s even a small quiz!
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CONVERSATION TOPICS: Richard Stephens.
THREE TRIGGER WORDS: Joop de Wit, Sheepie, and five people who choose to remain anonymous.
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Episode Links
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My friend teaches high school and I asked him how his first week back at school is going… jfc
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Hey Kids, guess what? It’s an Essential polling Tuesday! So let’s see what we can find. https://essentialvision.com.au As usual, this polling was done Wed–Sun and the margin of error on top-line figures is around ±3 percentage points. Here we go...
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Back at the Clapham Grand for a second week and Rich has had another worrying lump - why is his body conspiring against him? His guest is the poo obsessed Australian Sarah Kendall.
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Under-18s will be allowed to play online games for one hour on Fridays, weekends and holidays.
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The Supreme People’s Court and Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security published a lengthy essay Friday about labor violations and unreasonable overtime, labeled ‘996’ because of the common practice of working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. It outlined 10 cases -- including but not limited to the tech industry -- in which employees were forced to work extra hours, or put in harm’s way.
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[Cached AMWU tweet.]
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Question: Do people who own horses typically walk around with a photo of themselves and their horse?
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Some conservatives and supporters of former President Donald Trump have promoted ivermectin, a drug primarily used to deworm livestock such as horses and cows, as a viable treatment for COVID-19. Scientific research has not shown the drug to be effective in treating the novel coronavirus, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned Americans not to use the drug for COVID-19 infections.
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To be clear the people calling us “sheeple” are the ones taking livestock medication
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Prescriptions for ivermectin have jumped to more than 88,000 per week, some pharmacists are reporting shortages and people are overdosing on forms of the drug meant for horses.
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"I don't want to be in charge, but if I was ... give me 9 guys, I'm gonna walk through the streets [in Afghanistan] and I'm gonna kill everyone I see, and I'm gonna grab the Americans. It is not difficult" -- Rob O'Neill. This is the sort of commentary Fox News platforms. Yikes.
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Bureaucratic rigidity threatens to condemn this country, and the EU itself, to a wholly needless crisis over trade between the UK and the Brussels-ruled bloc.
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[27 August 2021] CLIVE PALMER AND CRAIG KELLY TEAM UP, WHAT A COUNTRY, I GOT BLOCKED BY TWO PEOPLE THIS WEEK, HOT POLITICIANS
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The Australian Women's Weekly's verdict on the Rolling Stones, 1965
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The first time you hear of something isn’t the first time that thing exists.
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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.