The 9pm Edict

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Australian author and reprobate John Birmingham joins me once again for the first sensible episode in The 9pm End of Spring Series 2020.

We talk about the US presidential election (obviously), the echoes of history, drugs, optimism, Blue Lives Matter, solar power, fake news, the Queensland election, love and hate, disinformation, media balance, and fundamentalist evangelicals.

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https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00121/

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It's Halloween! In this special livestreamed episode there's, yes, bad sex and the Queensland election. There's also a sex trivia quiz. And drinking. Oh yes, there was certainly drinking.

There's also a status report on the US election, kind of, and a little too much information about Donald Trump's penis. The recording is slightly shorter than four hours, though, because the gaps between segments have been removed.

Full podcast details, credits, and a list of the many, many people who are supporting The 9pm End of Spring Series are at:
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That very special livestream "The 9pm Halloween Bad Sex State Election Live" is happening just two days from now -- but how do you listen? Read on. Or listen on.

The easiest way is to go to https://the9pmedict.com/live. The livestream should play automatically as soon as it starts. That's at 8pm AEDT this Saturday 31 October. Halloween. I'll have a test stream playing roughly 15 minutes ahead of time.

To get the full experience, though, you'll want to be part of the live chat. For that you'll need to do one of these things.

If you're on a desktop or laptop computer, click on the episode title in the player thing or go to the Spreaker show page at https://www.spreaker.com/show/the9pmedict. The livestream will appear at the top of the episode list. Press play.

If you're on a mobile device, install the Spreaker play app. Search for "The 9pm Edict", click on the cover image, and there's the playlist right in front of you. Press play.

To take part in the chat you'll need to create an account and log in. I'm sure you can manage this.

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The End of Spring Series 2020 crowdfunding is going well. You'll get five episodes with special guests, and this Saturday it's "The 9pm Halloween Bad Sex State Election Live". Yes, live.

In a special four-hour livestream you'll get bad sex stories, Queensland election updates, a Sex Trivia Quiz, and more. All while I'm drinking heavily.

The livestream will be at https://the9pmedict.com/live.

Then in November–December there’s five more podcasts with special guests.

We're now on the way to the second stretch goal, an end-of-year panel show.

The Pozible crowdfunding campaign is at:
https://stilgherrian.com/endofpsring2020

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https://stilgherrian.com/edict/00119b/

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