Bath Time

It’s Day 164 of Bath Time!

Once you get past the intro which may be the best and most horrifying intro in Bath Time history…

Paul has found the StartUp podcast and is hooked.

Mammoth Audio is a podcast business startup. So is Gimlet Media. One is in Australia. One is in America. But the host of StartUp, Alex Blumberg, probably hasn’t listened to Bath Time.

It’s Day 163 of Bath Time!

TV & movie streaming in Australia is about to get a whole lot more interesting.

Netflix is launching soon, Stan has launched its early access and Presto has added TV shows to its lineup.

But who wins?

The consumer? Do you have a lazy $30 lying around per month to have access to virtually every TV show and movie ever?

Can the Australian market sustain three separate services? Or will they just cannibalize each other’s profits?

It’s Day 162 of Bath Time!

Today’s Movie Autopsy is American Sniper, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Bradley Cooper.

Paul and Anthony discuss the patriotism of the film, they reference Clint’s chair incident and marvel at some very awesome action sequences.

They also take note some sever one-sided portrayal of Iraqis, a beautiful drone shot of a drone and whether the ending was a sucker punch considering it’s a true story.

It’s Day 161 of Bath Time!

Paul has just arrived back in Melbourne after 3 days at a strategic planning camp for the Student Youth Network in Healesville.

He discovered that today’s young people are just as good if not better than the young people from his time at SYN.

We’ll all be working for them in ten years.

It’s Day 160 of Bath Time!

Paul begun his media life at the Student Youth Network in Melbourne – a community radio station and media hub.

Each year, they venture to Healesville for a strategic planning camp. Paul is getting a bit old for SYN, so he decided to attend the camp one more time, and record a podcast while he was there.

He’s joined by past Bath Time guests Bec Petraitis and Dylan Leach.

This episode contains an epic pitch by Dylan for a ratings blockbuster of an idea for a radio show on SYN, pitched to the new radio programming manager of SYN 90.7.

Listen in to find out how he went!

It’s Day 159 of Bath Time!

Paul is packing his bags for Healesville, but offers a rousing motivational speech.

Taking aim at people with chronic illness and shitty outlooks on life, Paul has some words of advice and some words of rebuke for all who indulge in cynicism.

It’s Day 158 of Bath Time!

Courtesy of Bath Time regular Phil Setton, today’s topic is “Why you could never be in the Olympics. Or could you? No. You couldn’t.” Thanks Phil! Paul explores what it takes to become an elite athlete and why he never bothered.

Also he ponders the true size of ISIS. It’s all a numbers game.

It’s Day 157 of Bath Time!

Tom Middleditch is an actor, theatre maker and his face is an internet dating meme! And he joins Paul in the tub for the first time today.

Tom tells the story of how his face became the weapon against unwanted male attention on dating sites, the joy of accents and the virtue of knowing what is attractive.

It’s all about the bass. But seriously, what is the treble?

It’s Day 156 of Bath Time!

Paul has just ordered a fitness bracelet so that he can measure how much exercise he’s not doing. But he had to decide whether to order the Small or Large wristband… And he had to measure in inches.

The process was lengthy and confronting.

Also, what’s your relationship with creatures of the night? Are you more fight or flight?

It’s Day 155 of Bath Time!

And today’s Movie Autopsy with Anthony McCormack is Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).

Is it a bat? Is it a plane? No, it’s Michael Keaton winning Best Actor at the Golden Globes for Birdman.

Recorded immediately after we see the movie, Movie Autopsy is our after-movie chat.

We talk amazing directing, casting in-jokes and the significance of Batman and Keaton.