The 9pm Edict

The Spring Series of the Edict continues with space archaeologist Dr Alice Gorman aka Dr Space Junk and a conversation that covers many curious possibilities.We talk about many things, including some unusual ways of launching things into space, the destruction of Cosmos 1408, Percy Grainger, inter-species romance, the Family D'Alembert science fiction series, telepresence, whether humans will become a multi-gravity society, and the theremin.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00151/Please support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

For this episode of the Spring Series 2021 I caught the train to Orange in the Central Tablelands of NSW to chat once again with Father Karl Sinclair, a priest in the Catholic Diocese of Bathurst.We spoke about many things, including truth in journalism, real estate prices, a certain opinion piece by Pru Goward, golf, dreams, politics, Kerala and the story of Doubting Thomas, the fate of the poor, Nineteen Eighty-Four, apocalypses, Satanic barcodes, and even Christmas. No, it's not too early.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00150/Please support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

Australian author and reprobate John Birmingham joins me yet again for another conversation about everything from journalism to turnips. In fact, journalism and turnips. Yes, it's another episode of the Spring Series 2021.We talk about Generation Z, adding chimpanzee hormones to chickens, #ThisIsNotJournalism, dreams, logarithms, how to organise your work, the simulation hypothesis, the Fitzgerald Inquiry, the privilege of having no hair, The Matrix, the pee tape -- plus of course Scott Morrison, those submarines, and the art of lying.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00149/Please support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

You may well have thought that a certain once-potent political party, the Australian Democrats, imploded around the turn of the 21st century, and you'd be right. But they're back, with a podcast titled Keep the Bastards Honest. This week I became their first non-party guest.We spoke about a bunch of cybersecurity and other internet-related legislation that's either recently been passed or is in the process of being debated. Things that might have slipped under everyone's radar with everything else that's been going on.And I told a few stories about the party's leader 1986–1990, the late Janine Haines.Keep the Bastards Honest is available at:https://www.democrats.org.au/podcast/and in the various podcast apps.Full podcast details at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/ktbh00005/Please consider supporting The 9pm Edict at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

You know him from ABC TV's 7.30. You knew him from The Feed and The Roast and Pointless Australia and more. Yes, the spring series continues with satirist Mark Humphries.On Wednesday afternoon morning we spoke about the magic of television, about Mark Zuckerberg, the hole in the ozone layer, accidental television, CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Bert Newton, the return of John F Kennedy Jr, Hey Hey It's Saturday, sanitiser, Planet of the Apes, Troughman, and The Collected Thoughts of Daryl Maquire.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00148/Please support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

In the first episode of the Edict’s Spring Series 2021, we meet Justin Warren, "consultant, freedom of information tragic, hexagon enthusiast, and creator of the CyberRating™ labelling scheme".We talk about freedom of information and hexagons, naturally. But we also talk about systems, surveillance, cybersecurity, robodebt, regulating the internet, bullying and the elite private school experience, dreams, scientific rationalism, The Matrix, cyber penguins, Metropolis, and of course Scott Morrison's magical climate action plan and "The Australian Way".Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00147/Please support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

No that isn't a typo. Isn't the new Premier of New South Wales a piece of work. And oh so sexy! In these trying times, you need to know about my new crowdfunding campaign. And about Dominic Perrottet.Press play to hear a few of my initial thoughts about our new state leader.Then click through to The 9pm Spring Series 2021 and consider pledging your support for more special episodes of this podcast through to the end of November and beyond. You have until 21 October 2021.https://the9pmedict.com/spring2021Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00147/If you miss the deadline, you can still support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

In this episode we simply have to hear about the plight of Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend. There’s some unbiased news from America. And there’s a compulsory mention of submarines.We also talk about pillows, hexagons, the Royal Navy, American media, dreams, Australia as a communist dictatorship, testicles, and cranberry juice.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00146/Please support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

In the final episode of the Edict’s Late Winter Series, we discuss Antarctic geopolitics with Dr Elizabeth Buchanan from the Australian War College. There's a lot more to it than snow, penguins, and coloured lights in the sky. We talk about krill, the secret Nazi bunkers, illegal fishing, the Antarctic Treaty System, China's interest in Antarctic resources, and how one Russian fishing vessel was faking its AIS beacon data to cover its tracks. There's even a fascinating fact about chess.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00145/Please support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

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!Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00144/Please support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/