The 9pm Chia Seed Protein Pudding with John Birmingham

John Birmingham is haunted by the cover of his latest book. (Photo: Supplied)

The summer series takes a disturbing turn this week with one of our favourite guests, author and columnist John Birmingham — who admits to eating something that I simply do not understand.

In this episode we also talk about Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, Donald Trump, Bluesky versus the site formally known as Twitter, cosplay, why sheep love solar energy projects, pork, alcohol, Christmas (of course), the Cybertruck (sorry), and why paying attention to the news is bad for you. And much more.

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John Birmingham has been on the Edict several times before.

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