In the early 19th century the city of Jerusalem was awash with apocalyptic American cowboys, Russian peasants hermits and famous book authors, like the guy who wrote Moby Dick, all in search of religious redemption and revival in the Kingdom of Heaven city. Instead they found a crumbling, donkey trampled, dust filled, Middle Eastern backwater filled with pistol carrying monks and ferocious Bedouin tribes.

The devastating disappointment that soon followed was known as 'Jerusalem Syndrome'- an over inflated vision of the cities magical and messianic properties that for some caused a complete mental collapse, others a spiritual awakening rooted in biblical dreams of grandeur hat (may) just still continue to this day.

PLUS

Seb receives a chilling warning before his wedding day, Jake plunges into Seaweed Capitalism and the boys discuss whether traveling around America could just be a great experiment in mindfulness.

WARNING- There is a tradition that when you reach the Holy City of Jerusalem you rip off your shirt and bare your naked chest. Podcast listeners may experience a similar sensation at the end of this episode for which we accept no responsibility.

Big thanks to our new sponsor, the Oklahoma Casino in Tulsa Oklahoma!

As the burning wreckage of 2023 still smoulders like a downed Russian mercenary leaders jet, Jake and Seb are pouring over the coals of this years biggest news stories and retiriggering themselves in the process.

On this special 2023 recap:

The GAZA conflict reaches small town Tasmania, our 100% red-hot take on GUYANA, Victoria's 10c container recycling $UPER PROFIT$, Traumatic head injuries, Syrian dictator drugs, the Ostrich bushranger of the Coorong, the Golden Mole, Napoleons Opium tea and why pickling industrial quantities of eggplant keeps Jake up at night.

Oh and we have a couple book recommendations too..

Merry crisis!

Is the American dream still alive? And is being smashed over the head with a wrench by a municipal worker a form of government overreach? On today's episode of The Kipodcast we speak with friend of the show Chris Dagostino about moving to America, making it in the film industry, and living the American dream- thanks to the Obama phone.

Mini Episode - How often do you think about the Worlds Fair? If you're Jake, it's nearly every waking minute. PLUS- is climate change causing marmot-induced mayhem on the Mongolian steppe? And is Jordan Peterson's advice null and void vs the Suquamish Tribes' 10 Rules of the Canoe?

Also: BLIMPS!

Have a question or want to join the conversation? Make sure you follow @the_kipodcast on Instagram

REFERENDUM RANT - The Voice is a once-in-a-generation referendum to alter the Constitution to recognize the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament.

Jake and Seb discuss the upcoming referendum vote in the only way they know how - by incorporating the settlement of Oklahoma, the War against the Taliban, and the Comanche War dance. Join our incoherent referendum rant and vote YES this October 14th.

It takes courage to make it in this land ... it takes even more courage to expose and TAKE ON the shonky Queensland Mandarin industry as a go-it-alone immigrant entrepreneur!

In this episode, we go off the map and take our recording gear down to Melbourne Farmers Market to speak with 2 highly successful immigrant entrepreneurs, one Israeli, and one Roman, to hear about a revolutionary new citrus fruit about to shake up the fresh produce industry on a cataclysmic scale and discuss the bloody origin story Rome that should have us all thinking..

Thanks to Melbourne Farmers Market for not making us pay entry.. we hope this compensates

Think of the remotest place you have EVER been and then go further... on todays episode we talk to our own Kipodcast embedded journalist and show co-host Jake McGovern about his time spent living and working with the Ngaanyatjarra and Pitjantjatjara people of Central Australia.

The Kipodcast is recorded at This Is A Studio Prahran on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the East Kulin Nations. We extend our respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We acknowledge their living connection to the Country, their relationship with the land and all living things extending back tens of thousands of years.

Is it all over before it's begun? We literally found $22,000 of Bitcoin on the side of the road and don't know what to do..... if it's not a scam we are CASHING OUT  and shutting down the Kipodcast FOR GOOD. 

If it is a scam we will put up the LARGEST PAYWALL EVER SEEN for this podcast until all debts are recouped.

We're joined by Podcast Studio owner and friend Dave Hickford to hear how he dealt with being a victim of crime and what advice he can give the Kipodcast to navigate this LIFE CHANGING OPPORTUNITY.

Enjoy!

Jake and Seb may be wise like Odysseus BUT do they have his strength and nerve to follow through with their startup idea- Genghis Tron- and drive the spear of enterprise into the eye of the savage corporate cyclops?

The would-be entrepreneurs discuss the moral and ethical quandaries around basing a tech startup on one of history's most bloody and genocidal warlords- The Bloody White Baron- with final-year Counseling student and friend of the show Iven Manning.

Unstoppable enigmatic warlord? Or Pathetic Man of history? In episode one we discuss the fall of the Russian Empire and Mongolia's bizarre and bloody ..liberation? ..conquest? and the press-ganging of an ethnically ambiguous holy Buddhist pro-Tsarist army by the not-even infamous Baron von Ungern-Sternberg - with guest and compatriot Kyle Lions, almost-winner of Australian Masterchef somewhere between 1996 and 2021.

This is part 1 of Genghis Tron- The Bloody White Baron of Mongolia with Masterchef contestant Kyle Lyons

Recorded at.... home (on Zoom)