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- Episode 430 - Fred McDermott: Murderer without a Corpse Part 2In 1936, a man disappeared from the small New South Wales town of Grenfell. More than a decade later, a travelling shearer named Fred McDermott found himself at the centre of a murder investigation that would change his life forever.
Join Holly & Matthew as they explore the disappearance of Harry Lavers, the investigation that followed, and the extraordinary case against Fred McDermott. With conflicting evidence, unanswered questions and a murder that seemed to have no body, the case would become one of the more remarkable chapters in Australia's criminal justice history.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-crap-in-australia--2968350/support.1 hr 7 min - Episode 429 - Fred McDermott: Murderer without a Corpse Part 1In 1936, a man disappeared from the small New South Wales town of Grenfell. More than a decade later, a travelling shearer named Fred McDermott found himself at the centre of a murder investigation that would change his life forever.
Join Holly & Matthew as they explore the disappearance of Harry Lavers, the investigation that followed, and the extraordinary case against Fred McDermott. With conflicting evidence, unanswered questions and a murder that seemed to have no body, the case would become one of the more remarkable chapters in Australia's criminal justice history.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-crap-in-australia--2968350/support.43 min - Episode 428 - The Life and Controversies of Fred Hollows Part 2Fred Hollows was a surgeon who believed that eyesight shouldn't be determined by where you were born or how much money you had. His work took him from Australia to some of the world's poorest communities, where he helped establish eye-care programs and trained local medical staff to continue the work.
Join Holly & Matthew as they explore the life and legacy of Fred Hollows, from his early career in ophthalmology and his work with FIrst Nations communities in Australia to the international foundation that continues his mission today. It's a story about medicine, social justice, and one very stubborn Australian who decided that preventable blindness shouldn't be something people simply had to accept.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-crap-in-australia--2968350/support.1 hr 24 min - Episode 427 - The Life and Controversies of Fred Hollows Part 1Fred Hollows was a surgeon who believed that eyesight shouldn't be determined by where you were born or how much money you had. His work took him from Australia to some of the world's poorest communities, where he helped establish eye-care programs and trained local medical staff to continue the work.
Join Holly & Matthew as they explore the life and legacy of Fred Hollows, from his early career in ophthalmology and his work with FIrst Nations communities in Australia to the international foundation that continues his mission today. It's a story about medicine, social justice, and one very stubborn Australian who decided that preventable blindness shouldn't be something people simply had to accept.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-crap-in-australia--2968350/support.1 hr 17 min - Movie Commentary 6 - Looking for Alibrandi (2000)What happens when you take one of Australia's most beloved coming-of-age stories and put Holly & Matthew in a room with it?You're about to find out.
Join us as we watch Looking for Alibrandi (2000), the Australian film adaptation of Melina Marchetta's much-loved novel. Along the way, we talk about family, identity, growing up, Italian-Australian culture, class, religion, and all the other things this film manages to cram into the life of one teenager.
We'll also be doing what we always do with these commentary tracks: stopping to talk about the history, the cultural references, the filmmaking, the things that have aged beautifully, the things that haven't, and probably several things that have absolutely nothing to do with the film.
Grab a copy of the movie, press play, and watch along with us.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-crap-in-australia--2968350/support.1 hr 51 min - Episode 426 - The Henley-on-Todd RegattaWhat do you get when a bunch of Australians decide to hold a boat race in the middle of the desert, where there isn't actually any water?
The Henley-on-Todd Regatta.
Join Holly & Matthew as they head to Alice Springs to explore one of Australia's strangest sporting traditions, where competitors race across the dry Todd River in boats that never actually touch the water. What started as a joke has become an annual event featuring everything from bottomless boats to elaborate costumes, ridiculous races, and a very Australian willingness to commit to a terrible idea.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-crap-in-australia--2968350/support.48 min - Episode 425 - The Deadly Beef Wellington Part 2For decades, death cap mushrooms were regarded as a rare but deadly hazard, claiming lives through tragic mistakes and misidentification. But in recent years, two Australian cases thrust these lethal fungi into the national spotlight for very different reasons.
Join Holly and Matthew as they examine the mysterious Canberra poisonings of 2012 and 2014 before turning to the case that captivated the world: the Erin Patterson mushroom lunch. They explore the biology of Amanita phalloides, how these toxic mushrooms found their way into Australia, the investigations that followed, and why a simple foraging mistake can have devastating consequences.
From accidental poisonings to one of Australia's most infamous criminal cases, this episode uncovers the deadly history of the world's most notorious mushroom.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-crap-in-australia--2968350/support.56 min - Episode 424 - The Deadly Beef Wellington Part 1For decades, death cap mushrooms were regarded as a rare but deadly hazard, claiming lives through tragic mistakes and misidentification. But in recent years, two Australian cases thrust these lethal fungi into the national spotlight for very different reasons.
Join Holly and Matthew as they examine the mysterious Canberra poisonings of 2012 and 2014 before turning to the case that captivated the world: the Erin Patterson mushroom lunch. They explore the biology of Amanita phalloides, how these toxic mushrooms found their way into Australia, the investigations that followed, and why a simple foraging mistake can have devastating consequences.
From accidental poisonings to one of Australia's most infamous criminal cases, this episode uncovers the deadly history of the world's most notorious mushroom.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-crap-in-australia--2968350/support.57 min - Episode 423 - Death Cap MushroomsFor decades, death cap mushrooms were regarded as a rare but deadly hazard, claiming lives through tragic mistakes and misidentification. But in recent years, two Australian cases thrust these lethal fungi into the national spotlight for very different reasons.
Join Holly and Matthew as they examine the mysterious Canberra poisonings of 2012 and 2014 before turning to the case that captivated the world: the Erin Patterson mushroom lunch. They explore the biology of Amanita phalloides, how these toxic mushrooms found their way into Australia, the investigations that followed, and why a simple foraging mistake can have devastating consequences.
From accidental poisonings to one of Australia's most infamous criminal cases, this episode uncovers the deadly history of the world's most notorious mushroom.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-crap-in-australia--2968350/support.1 hr 3 min - Episode 422 - The Case of Mr StinkyIn 1966, teenagers Garry Heywood and Abina Madill disappeared after leaving a dance in Shepparton. Weeks later, their bodies were discovered in bushland, launching one of Victoria's longest-running murder investigations. Detectives had fingerprints from the crime scene, but no name to match them, and for nearly two decades the case remained unsolved.
Join Holly and Matthew as they unravel the remarkable investigation that linked the murders to a series of violent sexual assaults across Melbourne, and discover how police finally identified the man known as "Mr Stinky." It's a story of old-fashioned detective work, painstaking fingerprint analysis, and a breakthrough that nobody saw coming
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-crap-in-australia--2968350/support.1 hr 8 min
About Weird Crap in Australia
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Welcome to Weird Crap in Australia, a podcast hosted by Holly and Matthew Soall, a husband-and-wife team digging into the strange, fascinating and occasionally downright bizarre history of…
Australia.
Holly is a social historian, and Matthew is a pop-culture obsessive. Together, they explore the stories Australians have been telling about themselves for generations — from ghosts, monsters, UFOs and true crime to disasters, animals, places, technology, censorship, popular culture and the weird corners of everyday Australian life.
But Weird Crap in Australia isn't just about the weird bit.
Every strange story has a history behind it, and Holly uses each episode to dig into the social history surrounding it: what Australians believed, how we lived, what frightened us, what entertained us, who was being left out of the story, and how the Australia we recognise today was shaped by the people who came before us.
Matthew brings the pop-culture perspective, looking at the way these stories have been transformed through film, television, books, music and the wider culture.
The result is Australian history without the dusty textbook.
Did you know a full firefight between MPs and soldiers took place inside Sydney's Central Station in February 1916 — and you can still find the bullet holes in the pillars?
Did you know one of Australia's convict ships was waylaid by Americans during the aftermath of the American Revolution in 1815?
Did you know Australia has a dinosaur called Qantassaurus, and that many of the fossil expeditions that uncovered Australia's prehistoric past during the 1970s and 1980s were sponsored by corporations rather than the government?
Did you know Chinese Australians played a significant role in the Victorian Gold Rush — and that the goldfields helped introduce Chinese food to Australian communities?
There's a lot of history in this country. Some of it is taught in school. A lot of it isn't.
We think the stories that have been forgotten, ignored or simply never made it into the textbook are worth telling. Because if we're going to understand Australia — and where we're going — we need to understand where we've come from.
New episodes release at 12pm AEST/AEDT every Monday.
***
All sound and voice clips used are © their respective owners.
Main Theme music – Kevin MacLeod
"Slow Ticking Clock" – Kevin MacLeod
Used under a Creative Commons license.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-crap-in-australia--2968350/support.
Holly is a social historian, and Matthew is a pop-culture obsessive. Together, they explore the stories Australians have been telling about themselves for generations — from ghosts, monsters, UFOs and true crime to disasters, animals, places, technology, censorship, popular culture and the weird corners of everyday Australian life.
But Weird Crap in Australia isn't just about the weird bit.
Every strange story has a history behind it, and Holly uses each episode to dig into the social history surrounding it: what Australians believed, how we lived, what frightened us, what entertained us, who was being left out of the story, and how the Australia we recognise today was shaped by the people who came before us.
Matthew brings the pop-culture perspective, looking at the way these stories have been transformed through film, television, books, music and the wider culture.
The result is Australian history without the dusty textbook.
Did you know a full firefight between MPs and soldiers took place inside Sydney's Central Station in February 1916 — and you can still find the bullet holes in the pillars?
Did you know one of Australia's convict ships was waylaid by Americans during the aftermath of the American Revolution in 1815?
Did you know Australia has a dinosaur called Qantassaurus, and that many of the fossil expeditions that uncovered Australia's prehistoric past during the 1970s and 1980s were sponsored by corporations rather than the government?
Did you know Chinese Australians played a significant role in the Victorian Gold Rush — and that the goldfields helped introduce Chinese food to Australian communities?
There's a lot of history in this country. Some of it is taught in school. A lot of it isn't.
We think the stories that have been forgotten, ignored or simply never made it into the textbook are worth telling. Because if we're going to understand Australia — and where we're going — we need to understand where we've come from.
New episodes release at 12pm AEST/AEDT every Monday.
***
All sound and voice clips used are © their respective owners.
Main Theme music – Kevin MacLeod
"Slow Ticking Clock" – Kevin MacLeod
Used under a Creative Commons license.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-crap-in-australia--2968350/support.
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