Bobs Your Uncle Podcast

Meet Will Ponsonby who is by trade both an electrical engineer and a former badminton champion in Hobart and the state of Tasmania in Australia. He also runs Off Court Sports (221 Liverpool Street, Hobart) where you can find all the gear for your favourite sports, even if it's not pickleball!

Historical markers of the week include Adolph Hitler, JJ Thomson and the electron, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, and a 1975 moment in the Vietnam War.

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Bobs Your Uncle features the opinions of Bob Mendelsohn and any of his guests.

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To read Bob's 1999 autobiography, click this link https://bit.ly/StoryBob

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Gerry is a lecturer in sociology and in the school of religion at University of Sydney and also at University of Tasmania. She has a lot to say and Bob also shares his views about text-based religion. It's Passover week; the Bible verse is a hit. This episode is actually part 2 of 2, concluding the episode we began last week.

Historical markers of the week include Hank Aaron, William Shakespeare and Sirhan B Sirhan, a Palestinian assassin who killed Bobby Kennedy in 1968 and continues in a life sentence in a California jail. 

To read the article that is featured in this episode, click on this link:  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00377686211065980 

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Thanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- [email protected]
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Bobs Your Uncle features the opinions of Bob Mendelsohn and any of his guests.

To financially support the podcast,  go to the Patreon site and choose Gold, Silver or Bronze levels.  Thanks for that! https://www.patreon.com/BobsYourUncle

To read Bob's 1999 autobiography, click this link https://bit.ly/StoryBob

To see photos of any of Bob's guests, they are all on an album on his Flickr site click here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobmendo/albums/72177720296857670 

Gerry Smith is originally from Sydney and spends half the year lecturing there and in Hobart, Tasmania on religion, on religious movements, and especially with a bent on the sociology of religion.  She has a lot to say about young people and inclusion, about key challenges to those involved in interfaith activity (or non activity), and this is only part 1 of 2 parts in this podcast series. 

Historical marker of the week includes Pope Julius II, the San Francisco earthquake, and the midnight ride of Paul Revere. By the way, Passover is this Monday evening. Have a blessed week.

Gerry's article is here:  https://bit.ly/GerrysArticle  

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Bobs Your Uncle features the opinions of Bob Mendelsohn and any of his guests.

To financially support the podcast,  go to the Patreon site and choose Gold, Silver or Bronze levels.  Thanks for that! https://www.patreon.com/BobsYourUncle

To read Bob's 1999 autobiography, click this link https://bit.ly/StoryBob

To see photos of any of Bob's guests, they are all on an album on his Flickr site click here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobmendo/albums/72177720296857670 

The concept did not originate in the Christian world, it's Jewish! The prophets of Elijah and Elisha raised people from the dead, and it's recorded in our Holy Scriptures.  So it's not a surprise that the Jewish believers in Yeshua also saw that as part of our proper theological view. Certainly the Orthodox Jewish world today still holds to that thought.  But what about Yeshua, and Easter... is that believable? Or is that simply sci-fi?

Historical marker of the week includes the Malvinas, Woodrow Wilson and 2001: A Space Odyssey. 

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Bobs Your Uncle features the opinions of Bob Mendelsohn and any of his guests.

To financially support the podcast,  go to the Patreon site and choose Gold, Silver or Bronze levels.  Thanks for that! https://www.patreon.com/BobsYourUncle

To read Bob's 1999 autobiography, click this link https://bit.ly/StoryBob

To see photos of any of Bob's guests, they are all on an album on his Flickr site click here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobmendo/albums/72177720296857670 

Bob speaks in answering two questions, one from a Jewish doctor over coffee and the other from a Christian man about three days and three nights and the apparent contradiction in the Word. How to solve those?

Historical marker includes the UN taking over Gaza, Marcus Aurelius and Bloody Sunday.

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Bobs Your Uncle features the opinions of Bob Mendelsohn and any of his guests.

To financially support the podcast,  go to the Patreon site and choose Gold, Silver or Bronze levels.  Thanks for that! https://www.patreon.com/BobsYourUncle

To read Bob's 1999 autobiography, click this link https://bit.ly/StoryBob

To see photos of any of Bob's guests, they are all on an album on his Flickr site click here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobmendo/albums/72177720296857670 

In this episode, Bob speaks about the purpose of remembering AND some useful aids in gaining a good memory.  Zooming in on his father's memory, and his yahrtzeit, Bob looks backwards so that he sees God's mercies. 

The historical markers of the week are all from the 20th century and include RUR, Margaret Thatcher, Nelson Mandela and the Ayatolla of Iran. 

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Bobs Your Uncle features the opinions of Bob Mendelsohn and any of his guests.

To financially support the podcast,  go to the Patreon site and choose Gold, Silver or Bronze levels.  Thanks for that! https://www.patreon.com/BobsYourUncle

To read Bob's 1999 autobiography, click this link https://bit.ly/StoryBob

To see photos of any of Bob's guests, they are all on an album on his Flickr site click here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobmendo/albums/72177720296857670 

Morgan Lindsay lives in New Zealand. She is a trained geologist with a love of sport, music and dance, disaster relief, and her nieces and nephews. A great all-rounder, you will enjoy spending 18 minutes with this lady. We met in Turkey and she and her partner Hayden loved the rocks and all-natural sites we saw throughout. 

She works as a Climate Risk and Geospatial Consultant at Tonkin + Taylor

The historical marker of the week includes another Kiwi named Hillary, milk in glass, and Amelia Earhart.  Oh, and Hamilton, too.

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Thanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- [email protected]
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Bobs Your Uncle features the opinions of Bob Mendelsohn and any of his guests.

To financially support the podcast,  go to the Patreon site and choose Gold, Silver or Bronze levels.  Thanks for that! https://www.patreon.com/BobsYourUncle

To read Bob's 1999 autobiography, click this link https://bit.ly/StoryBob

To see photos of any of Bob's guests, they are all on an album on his Flickr site click here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobmendo/albums/72177720296857670 

A longing for peace is never wrong. As Hanukkah is upon us tomorrow, and Christmas just around the corner, let's hope for real peace in the Holy Land. Here are Bob's personal views. They are not the views of an organization or institution. They are personal.

And some historical markers for 6 December includes Donald Trump and Hugo Chavez.

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Bobs Your Uncle features the opinions of Bob Mendelsohn and any of his guests.

To financially support the podcast,  go to the Patreon site and choose Gold, Silver or Bronze levels.  Thanks for that! https://www.patreon.com/BobsYourUncle

To read Bob's 1999 autobiography, click this link https://bit.ly/StoryBob

To see photos of any of Bob's guests, they are all on an album on his Flickr site click here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobmendo/albums/72177720296857670 

Malik grew up in Carolina in the US and spent time studying history and social science, even living in the Middle East. His perspective on the war today is pro-Palestinian, as he favours the plight of the underdogs. His Instagram is theloniousleek.

The Historical marker includes Nicholas II and the end of constitutional monarchy, The Soviets detonating Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic Ocean;  a fourteenth-century battle with Christians and Muslims and the War of the Worlds broadcast. 

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Thanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- [email protected]
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Bobs Your Uncle features the opinions of Bob Mendelsohn and any of his guests.

To financially support the podcast,  go to the Patreon site and choose Gold, Silver or Bronze levels.  Thanks for that! https://www.patreon.com/BobsYourUncle

To read Bob's 1999 autobiography, click this link https://bit.ly/StoryBob

To see photos of any of Bob's guests, they are all on an album on his Flickr site click here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobmendo/albums/72177720296857670 

Paul Cohen was born in the Netherlands and lived in Israel before moving to Australia years ago. He and his wife (whom he met in Israel) are very involved in the subject of Jews and Jesus and Israel. His perspectives include a desire for peace and sitting down to honestly talk about issues. His irenic nature unfolds clearly in this 3rd of 5 episodes on the subject of the Israel/ Hamas war. 

The historical marker includes the establishment of the Republic of Turkey (now Turkeye) by Ataturk,  the famous Black Tuesday in the US, and the invasion by Israel in the Sinai peninsula in 1956. 

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Thanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- [email protected]
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Bobs Your Uncle features the opinions of Bob Mendelsohn and any of his guests.

To financially support the podcast,  go to the Patreon site and choose Gold, Silver or Bronze levels.  Thanks for that! https://www.patreon.com/BobsYourUncle

To read Bob's 1999 autobiography, click this link https://bit.ly/StoryBob

To see photos of any of Bob's guests, they are all on an album on his Flickr site click here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobmendo/albums/72177720296857670