The 9pm Edict

It's Day 25 of Stilgherrian's coronavirus isolation. A trip down to Sydney on Friday provided some relief, but also a reminder of how bleak everything is becoming.Full podcast details at:https://stilgherrian.com/edict/00101/Support this podcast at:https://stilgherrian.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

It's Day 19 of Stilgherrian's coronavirus isolation. People are starting to realise that things might be different in the Aftertimes, and some of them don't like it. Also, God bless Jared Kushner.Full podcast details at:https://stilgherrian.com/edict/00100/Support this podcast at:https://stilgherrian.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

It's Day 10 is Stilgherrian's isolation, at least how he's counting it. America is doomed, and the Easter Bunnies in Wentworth Falls look very sad indeed.Full podcast details at:https://stilgherrian.com/edict/00099/Support this podcast at:https://stilgherrian.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

In a second and much briefer diary-style podcast, I talk about fear, and about how to avoid being overwhelmed by the news as the COVID-19 pandemic rolls into Australia.Full podcast details at:https://stilgherrian.com/edict/00098/Support this podcast at:https://stilgherrian.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

In this episode we, well I, start thinking about the impact of a certain global pandemic, including some references to the past. It's not all doom and gloom. Kinda.You'll hear about social distancing, quarantine, drones, epidemiology, conspiracies, Americans, sex, tapirs, quokkas, and capitalism.Full podcast details at:https://stilgherrian.com/edict/00097/Support this podcast at:https://stilgherrian.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

This is something special. Ish. A few days ago I was the guest co-host on Well May We Say, an Australian politics podcast from Jeremy Sear-Pirko in Melbourne. We had fun. We had opinions on things. I thought you might like it as a change. The episode is titled "A Fast-Moving Situation".As Jeremy wrote, "[This is] where we were Friday afternoon (with a Sunday evening update) comfortable in the knowledge that the greatest minds in the country were doing the best they could to keep us safe from the pandemic."Well May We Say is available at:http://wellmaywesay.comand in the various podcast apps.Full podcast details at:https://stilgherrian.com/edict/wmws121/Support this podcast at:https://stilgherrian.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

In this episode of The 9pm Probe, I visit Victoria's Parliament House in Melbourne for a long chat with Fiona Patten MLC, leader and sole elected member of the Reason Party, formerly the Australian Sex Party.We talk about all manner of things, including elections, drugs, why the party changed its name, science versus religion, the 1979 South Australian Royal Commission into the non-medical use of drugs, Ronald Reagan, the gig economy, HIV, a rumour involving a Melbourne brothel, pseudo-profound bullshit, Donald Trump, radicalisation, and more drugs.Full podcast details at:https://stilgherrian.com/edict/00096/Support this podcast at:https://stilgherrian.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

In this special livestreamed episode, Stilgherrian digs deep into the world of conspiracies, and quite a bit of alcohol. Live. For three hours. You have been warned.You'll hear the truth. The real truth. Like, how Australia’s bushfires really started. Like why we should worry about 5G communications technology. And how the coronavirus was... well... you'll hear. And a lot more.Full podcast details at:https://stilgherrian.com/edict/00095/Support this podcast at:https://stilgherrian.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

Let me read you something from the website of the totally normal community group No 5G in the Blue Mountains. In fact, let me read you a lot more this Saturday night, 1 February. But I need your help."If the telecommunications industry's plans for 5G come to fruition, no person, no animal, no bird, no insect and no plant on Earth will be able to avoid exposure, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to levels of RF radiation that are tens to hundreds of times greater than what exists today, without any possibility of escape anywhere on the planet. These 5G plans threaten to provoke serious, irreversible effects on humans and permanent damage to all of the Earth’s ecosystems."It's bullshit, of course, but I'd like to read you more of this bullshit. And I will, in another special live-streamed live-reading episode of The 9pm Edict. 5G conspiracies, chemtrails, what's really in McDonalds food, and more.Full podcast details at:https://stilgherrian.com/edict/00094a/Support this podcast at:https://stilgherrian.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

In this episode Snarky Platypus and I taste test the new Arnott's Shapes Aussie Legends crackers, and we hear how bots and trolls are spreading disinformation about Australia's unprecedented bushfires.You'll hear about climate change, disinformation, election curiosities, artificial flavours, how you're probably useless as far as politics goes, and how one brand of processed "cheese" slices contains a minimum 41% cheese.Full podcast details at:https://stilgherrian.com/edict/00094/Support this podcast at:https://stilgherrian.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/