The 9pm Edict

In this episode we travel to Newcastle to kick off The 9pm Autumn Series 2021 with special guest Carol Duncan — journalist, multimedia producer and Newcastle City Councillor.We talk about many, many things including her career in radio both commercial and at the ABC, being cool in your life, social media, family tragedies, cheap chocolate, mangroves, and Australian rock legends including Vanda & Young and Midnight Oil.We're also joined by a surprise special guest, the Lord Mayor of Newcastle, the Right Worshipful Nuatali Nelmes. We spoke about all the changes in the city since I was last there in 2013, and about coal. She's also issued me a personal challenge, which I'm now stuck with.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00128/Support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

Just days remain to pledge your support to The 9pm Autumn Series 2021. The same number of days remain until the start of The 8pm Quiz Series Two. And the magic number is four.Please consider pledging your support to the Pozible crowdfunding campaign for The 9pm Autumn Series 2021. You have until 9pm AEDT this Thursday 18 February 2021.https://the9pmedict.com/autumn2021Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00127b/Announcing "The 8pm Quiz" Series TwoAlso starting Thursday is The 8pm Quiz S02, bringing you five livestreamed episodes at 8pm Sydney time on the third Thursday of each month -- so after this week that's 18 March, 15 April, 20 May, and 17 June.Make sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel so you don't miss out, and please tell your friends.https://www.youtube.com/c/stilgherrianSupport this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

Let's kick off 2021 properly with a bunch of stuff including The 9pm Autumn Series 2021, more episodes of The 8pm Quiz, and perhaps even more podcasts.Yes it's all happening! I've just launched a Pozible crowdfunding campaign for The 9pm Autumn Series 2021.Hit the first target and you'll get five episodes of The 9pm Edict podcast with special guests during March and April. Hit the second target and you'll get three more.I'll announce further targets after that. There may be more one-on-one guests episodes. Or if we can go to the pub again there might be a Public House Forum. Or maybe even a special and disturbing livestreamed episode. Stay tuned!Support the Pozible campaign at:https://the9pmedict.com/autumn2021Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00127a/Announcing "The 8pm Quiz" Series TwoFollowing the success of of The 8pm Quiz pilot series I've decided to give it another go, though I don't quite have to time to do it weekly just yet.So The 8pm Quiz S02 will bring you five livestreamed episodes at 8pm Sydney time on the third Thursday of each month starting 18 February, then 18 March, 15 April, 20 May, and 17 June.I'll add in further dates when I have the brainspace and the budget -- so supporting the Pozible campaign will help.Make sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel so you don't miss out.https://www.youtube.com/c/stilgherrianSupport this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

The decision has been made! Yes, I'm doing a pilot series of a livestreamed pub-style quiz.The 8pm Quiz starts this Thursday 14 January 2021 at 8pm AEDT and runs for three weeks.It'll be streamed via my YouTube channel.https://www.youtube.com/c/stilgherrian/Full details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/quizpromo0/Support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

What a year! At the end of 2020 we can't even gather people in a pub to talk about how terrible it was. Well we can. But we shouldn't. So we didn't. We did this instead.In this ridiculously long episode of The 9pm Edict, I chat separately and remotely with four very special guests to consider what happened in 2020 and what it might mean for 2021. 1. Award-winning satirist Mark Humphries (@markhumphries) of 7.30 fame etc, inaugural champion of Mastermind Australia, former co-presenter of Pointless Australia, and much more.2. Health and science reporter Tegan Taylor (@teegstar), co-presenter of ABC Radio’s excellent Coronacast.3. Journalist Osman Faruqi (@oz_f), editor of the 7am podcast, among other things.4. Yun Jiang (@yun_aus), editor of The China Story blog at ANU and a director of China Policy Centre. Also one of the people that Senator Eric Abetz kicked off at.We talk about so, so many things, including journalism, quokkas and quolls, the Melbourne lockdown, savoury biscuits, COVID-19 (obviously), China, Scott Morrison, birds, the politics of policing, the economy, Donald Trump (also obviously), and much much more.And it's all punctuated by my own musings on the magnificent and most memorable year that was 2020.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00127/Support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

This isn't quite part of the End of Spring Series 2020, but here we are anyway with an unscheduled podcast just for you.In this episode we hear a prediction from 2016, and a theological theory about why Democrats are bad. But it's not all about America. There are also Christmas messages from some of Australia's favourite politicians, plus genuine medical advice, and quite a bit of subdued anger.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00126/Support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

Today’s guest in the End of Spring Series 2020 is Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell, a cultural anthropologist who's trying to create a whole new field of engineering. She's a geek.We talk about many, many things at very high speed including robots, American culture, artificial intelligence, conspiracies, wombat warrens, telegraphs, rugged individualism, science fiction, coffee, elevators, and Isaac Asimov.And of course the coronavirus, because that's the thing that's dominated 2020.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00125/Support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

Today’s guest in the End of Spring Series 2020 is the wonderful Andrew P Street — author, columnist, journalist, voice-person, and renown mink-canceller.We talk about many things including the relative merits of two opposing rat-based scenarios, a "translucently pale man", sex parties in Brussels, the wrong kind of war crimes, Australia's relationship with China, COVID-19, the nature of democracy, cancel culture, Pete Evans, some inevitable racism, why we need someone to blame, and why compliance is violence. No, apparently it is.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00124/Support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

Upulie Divisekera joins me once again for the third episode in the End of Spring Series 2020. She's a molecular biologist, nanotechnologist, science communicator, and dinosaur evangelist.We talk about many things including our first year with COVID-19, Christmas, The Crown, space toilets, chocolate, Elon Musk, gilded insects, gold nanorods and surface plasmon resonance, politics, religion, and Twitter.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00123/Support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

Cam Smith aka @sexenheimer on the Twitters has spent way, way too long down the rabbit-holes of the conspiracy theorists. He joins me for the second proper episode in The 9pm End of Spring Series 2020.Cam is astoundingly prolific. Apart from his Twitter feed being full of fascinating material like the stuff we discuss in this pod, he co-presents Yeah Nah Pasaran! on Melbourne radio 3CR, presents Rock & Roll Ate My Brain on Gippsland FM, and does the podcasts Hypothepod and, with comedian Ben Pobjie, Gather Around Me.He's also the author of Hot Knockers, "a journey through the world of people knocking on doors and other people wanting to know who is on the other side before opening said door".We talk about QAnon, rainmaking, angels and demons, COVID-19, toxic masculinity, horse-headed humans, the so-called "Bonk Ban", and MKUltra. Also Donald Trump. Obviously.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00122/Support this podcast at:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/