The 9pm Edict

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/

Technically this episode isn't part of the Late Winter Series, because there's no special guest and it wasn't scheduled, but here it is. It's the Full Moon, and I'm in a mood.We talk about dodgy energy-healing services, a little bit about Afghanistan, a little bit about climate, about people's responses to the COVID-19 response, and more.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00143/Please support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

The Late Winter Series 2021 of the Edict continues as Planet Earth continues to burn. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is calling it a "code red for humanity". We dig into that with Ketan Joshi. He's a communications consultant working with NGOs in Europe, and also a freelance writer covering climate and energy. We talk about how the policies and actions of the Australian government are lagging well behind public opinion, how quickly we could change our energy technology if we really tried, and what we should tackle over the next decade.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00142/Please support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

The Late Winter Series 2021 of the Edict continues with a look at how Australia is handling the COVID-19 pandemic. Our guests are science communicator and medical researcher Upulie Divisekera and infectious diseases physician Dr Trent Yarwood.We talk about the snappily-titled "National Plan to transition Australia’s National COVID-19 Response", the supporting modelling from Doherty Epidemiology, how Twitter science is the very best science, hazelnut chocolate, mRNA vaccines, gut parasites, the Reckon Vacuum, vaccine hesitancy, the politicisation of the pandemic response, and much more.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00141/Please support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

The Late Winter Series 2021 of the Edict continues with technology journalist and disinformation analyst Ariel Bogle from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's International Cyber Policy Centre.We talk about many things, including Dan Andrew's supposedly fake back injury, COVID-19 disinformation, cold showers, far-right political video activists, imaginary bullfighting, content moderation, YouTube banning Sky News Australia, and of course the cybers and the lack of reporting thereof.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00140/Please support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

The Late Winter Series 2021 of the Edict kicks off with self-described "investigative humorist" Dan Ilic, producer of the award-winning podcast "A Rational Fear", and a man known for shows ranging from "Hungry Beast" to "At Home Alone Together" and much more.We talk about many things and indeed many people, including Ray Martin, Scott Morrison, Rowan Dean, Andrew Denton, Craig Kelly, John Safran, Alan Jones, Noel Fielding, and Baratunde Thurston.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00139/Please support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

This is my fourth outing as guest co-host of Well May We Say, the Australian progressive politics podcast from Jeremy Sear-Pirko in Melbourne. This episode is titled "Anti-Vicsers" because... well I assume you've been following the COVID-19 news.We also solve Australia's housing affordability crisis with some of Jeremy's modest proposals, and wonder whether there's actually a point to any of this political discussion.Well May We Say is available at:http://wellmaywesay.comand in the various podcast apps.Full podcast details at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/wmws147/Please click through to The 9pm Late Winter Series 2021 and consider pledging your support for more special episodes of this podcast through July and August. You have until 22 July 2021. https://the9pmedict.com/latewinter2021If you miss the crowdfunding deadline of 22 July 2021 you can always support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

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.Please click through to The 9pm Late Winter Series 2021 and consider pledging your support for more special episodes of this podcast through July and August. You have until 22 July 2021. https://the9pmedict.com/latewinter2021Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00138/If you miss the crowdfunding deadline of 22 July 2021 you can always support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/