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My guest co-host today is Tony Kynaston from the QAV Investing Podcast. We’re talking about the Tucker Carlson interview with Putin and breaking down the lies, distortions and misinformation ABOUT the interview that we’re reading in the mainstream media, and asking why there is a need to distort Putin’s words in the West.

TranscriptBS 123
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[00:00:13] Cameron: Welcome to the Bullshit Filter episode 123 Special edition because, uh, Ray has been replaced
[00:00:23] Cameron: with a, uh, smarter, better looking version of Ray, uh, my o my other Ray Tony
[00:00:30] Cameron: Kynaston, and welcome to the Bullshit
[00:00:33] Cameron: Filter, Tony.
[00:00:35] Tony: Thank you, Cam. Thanks for the invite. And I, I feel special
[00:00:39] Cameron: Uh, you invited, you, you, you invited yourself? I think, uh,
[00:00:43] Cameron: actually, yeah. Yeah.
[00:00:45] Tony: I do.
[00:00:46] Cameron: We had a lot, we had a lot of people offered to come on, and I appreciate everyone’s offers, but I did say condition was, you had to watch the Putin interview. No one else, uh, seemed to be up for that. Tony goes, yeah, I can do that.
[00:00:58] Cameron: So he
[00:01:00] Tony: And that, and that was a high price to
[00:01:01] Tony: pay too, by the way.
[00:01:02] Cameron: Was it?
[00:01:03] Tony: Well, I didn’t mind listening to Putin, but
[00:01:06] Tony: Tucker Carlson, gimme a break.
[00:01:09] Cameron: Well, the, the upside is he didn’t, didn’t have much to say in the two
[00:01:13] Tony: it was a, I think a, a journalist would call that a softball interview.
[00:01:17] Cameron: Well, they’ve called it much, much worse than that. But look, and, and here’s, you know, there’s, there’s a couple of reasons for me being interested in this. Uh, number one.
[00:01:28] Cameron: Yeah. Uh, Putin’s obviously a, a major player in global geopolitics right now, and we don’t get to actually hear from him very often in the west.
[00:01:40] Cameron: Uh, and this is the first interview that an American journalist has got with him in over two years since the, this latest phase of the war, uh, began, the invasion began. Um, secondly, uh, you know, I think he’s, uh, he’s an interesting character. You, you know, you, you, you don’t run Russia for twenty-five years or whatever it’s been now, um, without having something going on.
[00:02:10] Cameron: He’s a smart canny player. Brutal, probably. And thirdly, and this is, I guess the main focus I want to give is just the level of outrage in the Western media about. Interview itself, even existing about Carlson doing the interview and, uh, and, and the outrage about the things that Putin allegedly said, which he didn’t actually say, I think, in the interview.
[00:02:45] Cameron: So I wanna cover the media coverage of it, and that’s kinda what the bullshit Filter originally was about, was looking at media coverage of big stories in the West and picking them apart to see if they’re providing a fair and reasonable, uh, coverage of the stories or if it’s bullshit. And I’ve read a lot of new stories about this and, and by and large, uh, I’m calling bullshit on a lot of it.
[00:03:12] Cameron: Anyway, let’s start with the interview, Tony. Um, I mean, I, you and I, I don’t think have talked a great deal about we, uh, Putin or Russia or Ukraine. Do you wanna give me your high level view on what’s been going on over there for the last 10 years?
[00:03:31] Tony: I’m not sure I can or I’m qualified. You, you probably know that far better than I
[00:03:36] Cameron: No.
[00:03:36] Cameron: one on this show has ever qualified
[00:03:38] Tony: yeah.
[00:03:38] Cameron: anything, don’t he?
[00:03:40] Tony: Well, you talk interesting, you said 10 years. I assume you’re referring back to the last time the
[00:03:45] Tony: government changed when, um, uh, Russia, annexed Crimea, and then there was a bit of a coup around that time as Well, Is that what you’re talking about? Is that why you said 10 years?
[00:03:55] Cameron: Well, uh, yeah. So Putin’s view, and, and I
[00:03:59] Cameron: tend to agree with him, is that in 2014 in Ukraine there was a coup, it was a US.
[00:04:05] Cameron: Uh, supported, if not engineered coup. There was an earlier coup, it was a 2004 coup, then there was the 2014 coup, uh, both led slash supported slash engineered, we believe by the, I believe by the United States.
[00:04:22] Cameron: To what degree? It’s hard to say, but there seems to be sufficient evidence to say that they were involved to some degree. Um, but you know, it’s the last 10 years is really when the Donbass situation became a thing. The Crimea became a thing, et cetera, et
[00:04:38] Cameron: cetera. Yeah.
[00:04:40] Tony: Yeah, I found it really hard to, to get to the truth, I guess, on the Donbass thing. I remember, um, when the, uh, probably prior to the Ukraine war, um, starting, I, I did hear some interviews. I think it was on the BBC World Service with, uh, which alleged that there was a flood of. Russian-speaking, um, Russian-affiliated Ukrainians crossing the border back into Russia.
[00:05:09] Tony: And that, that was because of alleged persecution from neo-Nazis in Ukraine on that sort of border region. And therefore, that was the justification for Putin having to take action. So, um, I tried to look up those articles in preparation for this and I couldn’t find them. So I can’t really talk about it in depth, but, but it’s, to me, it’s really hard to, to drill down and find out exactly what’s going on.
[00:05:35] Tony: Um, uh, it, it’s been hard as it always is in, I guess in a wartime situation. It’s been hard to get even accurate information about what’s going on in Ukraine during the war. And I probably relied a bit more on Al Jazeera for, for news on that rather than the Western media. Um, now Al Jazeera does have its problems too, but at least it was reporting issues like that.
[00:05:58] Tony: Pretty failure. And it was actually quite riveting the way they were reporting they were on the ground in the early days, reporting as, as suburb by suburb. The Russians started to get close to Kiev and, and get into Kiev and what was going on there. So that was, that was far better than the Western journalism.
[00:06:15] Tony: Um, and it was far more independent. So, uh, listening to the Putin interview, I think it was really interesting when he started to talk about his point of view on things like, uh, the, uh, the visit of Zelensky to the Canadian Parliament when the speaker and the Canadian parliament, uh, praised a, a war hero who turned out to be a, um, a Nazi or a neo-Nazi.
[00:06:39] Tony: A Nazi, I think actually. And then the speaker had to resign. So that didn’t get, that was the first time I’d heard of that. That didn’t get much coverage over here at all. So there is obviously two sides to every story. And I think, you know, it’s a show like this, which is good to pull it apart because. You know, as, as you know, it’s, um, the media is one of the institutions that manipulates us in, in our points of view and our, our lifestyles.
[00:07:03] Tony: And definitely in the West, that can be shaped by just straight capitalism and who, uh, who is paying for what ads in the media and, and who, what kind of agendas are they pushing and what kind
[00:07:16] Tony: of, uh, you know, political, uh, persuasions are they pushing and or do they have allegiances to or do they control?
[00:07:23] Tony: So it’s a, it’s a big issue.
[00:07:25] Cameron: mm It is, and it it, you know, I guess part of the reason
[00:07:31] Cameron: for me being interested in doing this show
[00:07:33] Cameron: is, uh, you know, the historian side of me knows how I. Regularly Western populations have been lied to historically during wars, uh, going back to World War I all the way through to, you know, Vietnam, um, and the, the Gulf Wars.
[00:07:53] Cameron: And, you know, there seems to be this fascinating cycle where we go through a war, we go through a conflict that we’re either directly involved in or indirectly involved in. And the government of the day and the media of the day spin a whole bunch of propaganda about it. We find out years later that they lied or spun or manipulated or there was no evidence for WMD and, you know, the attacks on this ship or that ship weren’t really
[00:08:25] Cameron: attacks ill that Yeah.
[00:08:28] Cameron: And, and the media says Mia culpa will never do that again. I. And the people tend to say, wah-ha. Now we understand that we will never be lied to again. And then the cycle just repeats. You know, within a decade there’s another incident and the media jump on board. The governments jump on board and the people just go along for the ride and believe everything again.
[00:08:50] Cameron: And inevitably a few years later they’ll go, oh no, we were lied to. Oh,
[00:08:53] Cameron: never again, you know?
[00:08:56] Tony: Well, you raised some great points, Cam, and they’re pertinent to this topic as well. And you know, it’s interesting, I think that there is no crime of misrepresentation in journalism, even though journalists will always say, we need to get to the facts and we want to, um, report them objectively, and we need two sources and we need hard evidence if none of those things happen.
[00:09:16] Tony: They get off Scot-free, and in fact, if they don’t happen, their readership may actually go up. So that’s, that’s the first thing to, to address what you’ve said. But the second thing about what you’re saying as well is that, particularly in this case, there’s an awful lot of money involved. Um, you know, Congress has stalled now on a multi-billion dollar aid package to Ukraine.
[00:09:38] Tony: And as, as we both know, that, that aid probably won’t ever reach Ukraine. It’ll be given to American companies providing arms to, uh, Ukraine, which is, which is fine in terms of helping Ukraine, uh, fight off the Russians, but it’s, it, you know, leads you to think, well, who’s behind that? Who benefits from that?
[00:09:56] Tony: And it’s the arms dealers in the, in the us the ominous manufacturers in the us. To benefit from it. So they’re always spoiling for a fight. ’cause it, it’s a good way to increase sales. So, um, yeah. The, the last 10 years, has it, has it been a swing to the Western Ukraine and has it been natural that Ukraine has therefore felt, um, more antagonistic or antagonized by Russia?
[00:10:24] Tony: And has that been fueled by the military-industrial complex in the US who are saying, well, you know, we, we kinda like it that there could be an antagonism on the border. It may actually work out for us.
[00:10:37] Cameron: mm
[00:10:41] Cameron: mm mm
[00:10:47] Cameron: mm mm mm mm. Mm mm. The, there, there are certain interests in Western countries who love good war because it’s economically profitable. And it’s not just the, the weapons manufacturers, it’s the media. ’cause big conflicts drive newspaper sales, television viewership, radio listeners, which means you can sell more ads.
[00:11:09] Cameron: Uh, and they’re cross related, obvious, uh, uh, often ownership issues between the owners of big media companies and the owners of weapons manufacturers. And, but it’s also, as we’ve, we’ve talked about on the Cold War Show, uh, many, many times and on this show, when there have been studies done on this in the US primarily. Who benefits from the industrial military complex over there? It’s not just weapon manufacturers, it’s businesses of all shapes and sizes. Because particularly US America’s, 800 odd military bases around the world need socks and condoms and food and computers and software paperclips, right? And so every congress person, every senator in the US has people in their district who run businesses, who have Pentagon contracts, and it’s a big chunk of their revenue.
[00:12:05] Cameron: And it’s easy money once you have that contract. It’s not competitive. They’re not like, uh, running a, a tender every year for this. If you’ve got it, you’ve got it. Quite often there’s, there’s a sense of urgency. Oh, we just need the stuff. We’ve gotta get it now. It’s urgent. We need it
[00:12:22] Tony: It’s a rush job.
[00:12:23] Cameron: Yeah. So it’s, it’s good for business.
[00:12:27] Cameron: Anyway, back to the coverage. So most of the coverage that I’ve read, and obviously I haven’t read everything, but I try and get a smattering of, you know, I, I read the BBC and the New York Times, and the Guardian and the ABC here in Australia and CBC in Canada, and try and get a coverage of what the, the major media outlets, uh, saying about this.
[00:12:47] Cameron: It’s a combination, I think, of lies, outright lies and distortion of what Putin said. And a lot of it is just attacking Carlson, both for giving Putin airtime in the first place, or for his weak interviewing skills. To me, the only real crime Carlson committed is having a very punchable face. Uh, he’s, he, he’s just one of those guys that just Chrissie walked through the, the living room a couple of times and I thought she’s going, oh my God, I just wanna punch him in the face.
[00:13:25] Tony: Yeah, he’s a smug white man, isn’t he?
[00:13:27] Cameron: He is, look, he is, uh, like, I mean, you’ve gotta be a pretty horrible person for the Murdochs to get rid of you. You know, when he got fired from Fox
[00:13:36] Cameron: last year, he was the most viewed cable network host in, not only in Fox, but in the United States. And they got rid of him when they were in the dominion of Voting Systems lawsuit.
[00:13:50] Cameron: And a whole bunch of his texts and emails were gonna become released as evidence. And, you know, it was just evident that he was a racist, vile piece of shit. And it, it was probably gonna cost them. Uh, and, you know, he was up on harassment, uh, accusations from employees. And it had come out that while they were pushing Trump in the last election behind the scenes, he was saying that he hated Trump.
[00:14:17] Cameron: And Trump was awful and he hoped Trump loses so they wouldn’t have to talk about him anymore. I dunno if that’s in the plus or the minus column for him, but he, you know, he was saying that internally, but publicly
[00:14:28] Cameron: praising Trump, you know, so
[00:14:30] Tony: Oh, and pushing the, pushing the voter fraud argument for Trump. That’s why he was so pivotal in that Dominion settlement. That’s an interesting book by Michael Wolf, if anyone wants to read it, to go through that whole process and
[00:14:41] Tony: how they thought in um, offering up Carlson’s resignation, it might help lower the settlement, but it didn’t.
[00:14:46] Tony: Of course, they paid a record settlement to, um, to the Dominion to drop the case.
[00:14:52] Cameron: So I’m in no way, shape or form a fan of Tucker Carlson or, uh, uh, trying to apologize for Tucker Carlson. But
[00:15:01] Cameron: I, I, I think the, the amount of coverage that’s given in these stories to, instead of coverage of what Putin actually said is disproportionate.
[00:15:12] Tony: Right.
[00:15:13] Cameron: If they don’t actually, when they do talk about Putin, they don’t tend to address his actual claims.
[00:15:18] Cameron: One of the exceptions by the way, is Al Jazeera, like the Al Jazeera coverage is typically very dry and factual. Here are the five major points that Putin made in the interview kind of thing, right? So I agree with you, Al Jazeera increasingly is the place where I go to, if I want to actually find out what’s going on or what was said.
[00:15:38] Cameron: Um, they don’t talk about Putin’s actual claims. You know, about NATO enlargement, about the CIA blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, which we’ve talked about a lot on this show over the last year or so about the US and the UK preventing Ukraine from agreeing to a negotiated end of the conflict early on, which we’ve also talked about a lot on the show.
[00:15:58] Cameron: Like a lot of the points that Putin was making are valid. Uh, and you know, we’ve gone over them in previous episodes, so I’m not gonna like reiterate all of them, but the, the. Key issue here is that the Western media, by and large, doesn’t talk about them. If they do, they dismiss them in a couple of words as being nonsense and just move on.
[00:16:23] Cameron: Like there’s no real addressing of the issues in a serious way. And the two questions that I have, Tony, is one, why the lying by the media? Why the lying and the distortion? Why is it that the media needs to demonize our enemies and the Western journalists? And it’s not just when it comes to external enemies.
[00:16:45] Cameron: This happens over and over with internal enemies. We’ve seen this with Julian Assange, we’ve seen this with Glenn Greenwald, we’ve seen this with Matt Tabe. These are, you know, journalists who, when they’re writing stories that the left in support of, they’re considered heroes of the left when they’re attacking the right.
[00:17:07] Cameron: As soon as they write stories that are attacking. The left, particularly the Democrats in the us, they’re vilified not only by, you know, democratic politicians, but all of the Democratic supporters and the media. They attack their own, they eat their young attack. The journalists as being, you know, when Matt Tabe was writing the, uh, Twitter files stuff, he got absolutely attacked mercilessly by the rest of the media.
[00:17:36] Cameron: Greenwald gets it every time. He, you know, says something negative about a Democratic administration. Julian Assange obviously still in prison, and, uh, they’re trying to extradite him so he can serve 173 years in jail in the United States for revealing their crimes. And the second question, building on that is, is how is it coordinated?
[00:17:59] Cameron: How is it that all of the Western media in this particular instance, seem to have the same script? How does that work? How is it coordinated? Like there’s plenty of clips, I dunno if you’ve seen them on YouTube, where they do this with say, Fox News, where they’ll have, uh, you know, one reporter or on one of the shows on Fox, uh, not just on Fox News, but all the Fox stuff making a statement about, you know, this something wrong with the system.
[00:18:28] Cameron: And then they’ll just start adding clips of different Fox hosts saying the exact same words. And it’s just, they, they often when it’s talking about, you know, we’re fair and balanced and giving you independent thinking and it’s just, they’re all reading from the same script. So, and obviously it’s easy to understand how that happens inside of one outlet, but how does it happen right across.
[00:18:51] Cameron: Countries, different media outlets, some of them supposedly independent, like not government, uh, or, or the ABC, whatever we call the ABC here. Like it’s a independent government funded media company that supposedly independent and, and, you know, aspires to a higher level of journalistic integrity. But they’re singing from the same hymn sheet as Fox News and MSNBC and everybody else.
[00:19:23] Cameron: I can’t figure out really how that works if it’s coordinated or it’s just, Hey, we’re on this side of the, we’re on this side of the camp, so we’re just gonna
[00:19:35] Cameron: jump on board.
[00:19:36] Tony: Well, I think the answer is multifaceted. I think lazy journalism plays a part. So, you know, if Tucker Carlson broadcasts an interview overnight in Australian time, then there’s probably gonna be something on the wire. So on the Reuters or AAP or whoever else that these news outlets use, summarizing it.
[00:19:56] Tony: And they, oftentimes, it’s, it’s not the headline story for Australian News, so they’ll just copy and paste paragraphs and put it into their, their newspaper or into teleprompter for the news, and then maybe a day or two later realize they’ve got some of the things wrong, but it’s the news cycles moved on then.
[00:20:12] Tony: So I think lazy journalism is a part, I don’t think there’s a coordinated effort apart from that. I mean, those, those wire services go into every news outlet in the world. So there is a certain amount of similarity in, in what gets reported,
[00:20:28] Cameron: A Reuters or an
[00:20:28] Cameron: AAP feed that they’re grabbing it from.
[00:20:30] Tony: Correct, yeah. Quickly. And, you know, having an editor shout at them that the deadline’s looming and we have to put a story out about Putin.
[00:20:39] Tony: Um, I think there’s a bit of that. I think there’s also, unfortunately, these days probably, maybe it’s always been the same, but it didn’t feel that way when I was younger. There’s more of it these days where it’s an echo chamber. The media’s, the media outlets have drawn sides, which I think is also behind the attacks on Tucker Carlson.
[00:20:58] Tony: He’s from the other side and he’s an easy target, so we’re gonna focus on him. We’re not of that side because our listeners, our readers wanna hear something, you know, written about. It’s written about what they think. Um, and their, their point of view was they’re against the war in Ukraine, they’re against Putin and therefore against Putin, and they’re against.
[00:21:19] Tony: Fox News and therefore Tucker Carlson, even though Tucker Carlson doesn’t work for Fox News anymore. So there’s, there’s that kind of mindset as well. The, the tribalism of the media is more exaggerated these days I think, as well. Um, and then there’s the political sphere of things too. The tribalism either bled from politics or it’s bled into politics from the media, but the same sort of thing.
[00:21:40] Tony: I mean, uh, media Bytes a show on the ABC here at nine 30 in Australia on a Monday night regularly shows every morning news presenter across the commercial networks across the ABC saying the same thing, using the same phrase. So, you know, there’s an element of, of, um, it’s quick journalism. It’s coming from the same source, and occasionally they’re putting their
[00:22:02] Tony: own slant on it to try and appeal to their audience and
[00:22:05] Tony: get them to keep listening and watching what they say.
[00:22:08] Cameron: I think you’re probably right. Um, I think media outlets. No, you know, it’s an increasingly competitive media landscape and hard to run a profitable media business. Um, there’s been a number of articles I’ve read over the last month or so about all the major newspapers in the us, including the ones bought by billionaires like Jeff Bezos are struggling to make money.
[00:22:34] Cameron: They’re, they’re bleeding money and, uh, you know, smaller media outlets like Vice have shut down ’cause they couldn’t become or maintain profitable. Um, it’s, it’s a tough time out there. So they, you know, there’s business people knowing who their audience is. This is what our audience wants to hear, this is what our advertisers need to hear us say.
[00:22:58] Cameron: So they’ll continue to support it and you
[00:23:00] Cameron: just toe the line.
[00:23:02] Tony: Yeah, I was, I mean, I’d add to that. That, um, it was really the internet which killed journalism because when classified ads moved from newspapers to online, and we had companies like Seek in Australia and Realestate.com.au and Domain, and they’ve got other examples around the world where home ads and job ads go online.
[00:23:26] Tony: Then the newspapers lost what was called the rivers of gold, and they became unprofitable and they started sucking journalists to try and, um, cut costs to keep, keep things profitable. So they just isn’t the staff anymore to check. And coupled with, uh, as you say, ad advertisers who. Know that if they take out an ad in the garden, they’re not gonna sell many fridges, but if they take it out in a telegraph, they’re gonna sell all the fridges.
[00:23:54] Tony: So then, you know, you get this sort of cycle of we’ll advertise with you as long as you’re engaging with the readers in the western suburbs who are all new homeowners and wanna buy fridges. As soon as you lose that market, we’ll
[00:24:06] Tony: take our ads and put it somewhere else. So it’s a, it is a real echo chamber,
[00:24:10] Cameron: Or it’s, it’s as simple. Even if that conversation doesn’t happen, it’s like, give me your media kit. Who are your, who are your customers? What are the demographics? Yeah. Okay. That’s not our demographic. Sorry. If you wanna appeal to us, you have to be appealing to
[00:24:24] Cameron: that demographic, and that
[00:24:26] Tony: And the flips.
[00:24:27] Cameron: read you if they hear a certain kind of story.
[00:24:29] Tony: and the flip side applies too. Um, if, if, uh, the Guardian in Australia ran an article praising a. Tucker Carlson, it would start to lose readership and it would start to lose advertisements. And there are just different type of supplies with those ads in the Guardian. I mean, I haven’t read the Guardian for a long time, but I imagine it’s, you know, ads for wind farms and alternative energy and things like that.
[00:24:51] Tony: And they’re not gonna um, they’re not gonna keep paying the price they pay. Now if the Guardian’s readership goes down.
[00:24:58] Cameron: Yeah, so it’s, it’s basic economics, which is driving the slant on the coverage for a lot of these stories. And you know, it reminds me when I first moved to Brisbane, nearly, I don’t know, 16 years ago this year, I guess I was invited to, I think it was University of Queensland to speak as part of a panel to, uh, an incoming bunch of, uh, journalism students.
[00:25:29] Cameron: This is about 2008, would’ve been. And middle of 2008, and they got to, you know, my turn. It was, and the other people on the panel were all like editors and, you know, whatever’s, uh, real media, real journalists sort of people. And they’re all like, oh, it’s a very fine profession and it’s a, you know, it’s congratulations and blah, blah, blah.
[00:25:52] Cameron: They got to me, it’s a bunch of these poor eighteen-year-old kids. And I said, I just feel sorry for the lot of you because by the time you leave here, there aren’t gonna be any jobs left in journalism. And they’re like, oh, what? And, and, and they were like having a go. And I said, look, it’s just the economics man.
[00:26:06] Cameron: Like these journalism businesses are bleeding money and it’s not gonna stop. The economics of the, of the industry has fundamentally changed you. You, there aren’t gonna be any jobs. And they, they all said that I was being hyperbolic, uh, classic Cameron Reilly hyperbole, and blah, blah, blah, blah. And you know, it played out that way.
[00:26:25] Cameron: You can’t fight the economics right.
[00:26:27] Tony: No, you can’t fight economics
[00:26:29] Tony: You’re right. But I think also too, around that time, I, I mean, um, wind the clock back a bit further, when I did intro journalism at Queensland Uni and, uh, I, I worked out pretty soon that, you know, from talking, but being in tutorials with editors from papers and, you know, lots of people would come and talk to the journalism classes almost every week.
[00:26:47] Tony: There’d be a different editor or, or someone coming along. They, you know, first of all, sport played a big part in, in journalism in Queensland. And secondly, it was a, it was a club, it was a network and they, the people who would, you know, that they were after were knock about rugby types who could have a beer with anyone and get, you know, catch someone off guard and do a gotcha type article.
[00:27:08] Tony: Uh, there there was two camps. There was those types of people, which was I think the, the, the majority. And then there was the, the, um, as you say, the honest independent professionals like Eleanor Taylor, I. Who argue at university. I think she now edits the Guardian, um, who does have, have high journalistic
[00:27:26] Tony: standards, but, but they’re in the minority. And and they’re in the minority because they, the careers that that they started off in just weren’t there
[00:27:33] Tony: for them in the end.
[00:27:35] Cameron: I think they’ve always been in the minority. And have you ever read Chomsky and Herman’s
[00:27:40] Cameron: manufacturing consent?
[00:27:42] Tony: Yeah. And seen the documentary.
[00:27:43] Cameron: Hmm. So the model that they put forward, which was Herman’s model, um, Chomsky gives him credit for it, and they got it from an Australian guy. You ever read the Australian guy that they got that from Herman Got it from, can’t remember his name.
[00:27:58] Cameron: He passed away quite young, sadly. Um, but he, he was a, I think he was from Queensland. He wrote a book in the early nineties, um, which I’ve got somewhere. But he, he basically broke down the model in the same way. And they, and Herman and Chomsky reference him and, um, give him credit for breaking it down. But he was basically saying that. You know, uh, and I, I think I talked about this a bit in our psychopath book, but that if you are, when you are interviewing as a journalist to get inside of a media organization, they’re looking for are you gonna fit in? Are you gonna be part of the team? Are you gonna work well? Are you, are you going to fit in with the culture of the organization?
[00:28:40] Cameron: And they will weed out people that have views that are diametrically opposed to them politically. Uh, and if somebody sneaks through and who has diametrically opposed, uh, political views and it starts to show up and they’re writing, they’ll be, they’ll be urged to get in line. And if they don’t, they’ll be put on the.
[00:29:02] Cameron: You know, a different bait, a sport bait or something that doesn’t have a political leading or, or an independent opportunity for independent thinking, or they’ll get fired or, or, you know, or conditions will be made so difficult for them to continue working there that they will pack their bag and go somewhere else.
[00:29:20] Cameron: There are different filter mechanisms that have always been in place to weed out the
[00:29:25] Cameron: undesirables.
[00:29:27] Tony: And the, the classic example, which happened just recently was Antoinette Latouf at the ABC.
[00:29:32] Cameron: exactly. Which you might wanna explain that story for our many international
[00:29:36] Cameron: listeners.
[00:29:38] Tony: Yeah. So, uh, she was a casual presenter who came in, uh, to the ABC, which is our, our national broadcaster, um, just on a short-term contract. Uh, and it was, you know, a light and breezy type type role. But, but she was, uh, an Arab Australian who was, um, pro-Palestine and, uh, and, and, um, against the Israeli aggression in Gaza.
[00:30:05] Tony: And she lasted three days and then was, um, sacked under pressure from a bunch of, uh, well, supposedly under pressure from a bunch of Jewish lawyers. I’m
[00:30:13] Tony: not sure if that actually happened, but that was alleged.
[00:30:16] Tony: Uh, but she was sacked by the ABC anyway, ’cause of, um, uh, certainly a, a heightened media profile over her stance.
[00:30:23] Cameron: Well there, I mean, there’s, there was evidence that the um,
[00:30:27] Cameron: Zionist Lobby group of Jewish lawyers, etc. Tried to put pressure on the
[00:30:32] Cameron: ABC. Coincidentally or not fired her. So yes, it’s not hard to draw the dots, even though the ABC denies that it had,
[00:30:43] Cameron: uh, any influence on it.
[00:30:45] Tony: Yeah. And I’ll say it. allegedly happened that way, but, but certainly the fact is she was, she was sacked after three days.
[00:30:52] Cameron: So I wanna talk a little bit about, uh, Putin’s, uh, claims
[00:30:57] Cameron: about the history. So,
[00:30:58] Cameron: uh, early on in
[00:30:59] Cameron: the interview, he says to Tucker, are we gonna have a serious conversation or is this just gonna be light frothy entertainment? Um, Tucker says, no, it’s gonna be serious. And Putin says, let me, let me take
[00:31:10] Cameron: 30 seconds to explain the history of Russia and
[00:31:12] Tony: Yeah.
[00:31:14] Cameron: And he’s obviously a fan of my podcasts because
[00:31:18] Cameron: half an hour later,
[00:31:19] Tony: podcast. Yeah.
[00:31:21] Cameron: half an hour later, he finally wrapped that up. But. Uh, a lot of the criticism about Putin in the media when he does this stuff is about his version of the history of Russia and Ukraine. Uh, and I, I’ll give you an example here. This is from the BBC, an article entitled Tucker Carlson Interview Fact Checking, Putin’s Nonsense History.
[00:31:49] Cameron: And they say, Sergey Radchenko historian at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Study says the President’s claim is a complete falsehood. Vladimir Putin is trying to construct a narrative backwards, saying Russia as a state began its development in the ninth century. You could equally say that Ukraine as a state began its development in the ninth century exactly with the same kind of evidence and documents. So you, you see a lot of this in, um, the media coverage sort of. Uh, uh, sweeping attacks on Putin’s version of the history. But then they don’t actually say what he got wrong. It’s a complete falsehood. Alright, what did he actually get wrong? They don’t actually say what he got wrong. It’s just, oh, it’s just all nonsense.
[00:32:42] Cameron: So not being an expert on the history of this part of the world, um, what I did was I took the transcript, um, of the interview, took all of Putin’s statements and I put them into ChatGPT and I said, let me give you some quotes about the history of Russia and Ukraine and tell, tell me if they’re factually correct or not.
[00:33:08] Cameron: So I threw it all into ChatGPT and basically what it gave me back was, listen, this is actually correct. Um, the interpretation though. Of what this means is, uh, it’s a particular interpretation. Uh, and there are, it could be debated, you know, there are other views and, you know, it’s complicated. State-nation history, state history, very complicated and complex.
[00:33:39] Cameron: And there are a lot of intertwining factors and, you know, a, a different points of view that could be debated, et cetera, et cetera. But factually, it didn’t really have, um, any criticisms of, uh, I mean, I, I sent you the, the, the link to the
[00:33:55] Cameron: chat. Did you have a chance to read through that?
[00:33:58] Tony: I did, yeah. I read the other links too, from the B, B, C, et cetera on what they were saying about, about that too. Um, I, I, I guess, you know, let me preface my comments by saying, I, I think there’s a reason behind Putin spending half an hour at the start of the interview saying what he did.
[00:34:13] Cameron: Sure.
[00:34:13] Tony: Um, it’s, and it was, I, I, um, looked up.
[00:34:18] Tony: You know, the, the history as well. And I came across a Forbes magazine article, which I thought was, um, interesting, where they went into the, the fact that Putin had written an essay about this before the war and was basically regurgitating this in the first part of the interview. Um, I. Yeah. But, um, but, uh, the essence of that, of the Forbes article was that Putin wasn’t speaking to Carlson.
[00:34:42] Tony: He was speaking to his own people that, yeah, the, the Forbes article didn’t call it propaganda, but that’s probably what it was. It was Putin laying out his reasons for the war and hugging on the heartstrings of a particular demographic in Russia that, you know, he thought would support it, um, by going through the history of Ukraine, especially people who were older and, and probably had memories from World War II.
[00:35:06] Tony: So I, I think that’s one of the reasons why Putin did all that. I think the other reason he did it was it’s not a bad ploy. If you’re being interviewed and you’re not a hundred percent sure that the interview is going to give you a good hearing, it’s just to. To keep talking, to keep pushing your point of view and just see if they push back and ask questions.
[00:35:25] Tony: And, and Carlson didn’t, so Putin just laid out his whole manifesto for invading Ukraine, um, and which was, you know, couched in the guise of history. So I think that’s the first thing to say about it. Whether it’s right or wrong, Putin was talking to a demographic in Russia. It was, it was essentially propaganda and Carlson never picked him up.
[00:35:44] Tony: The other beautiful thing about that is because probably a lot of journalists didn’t have two hours to listen to the whole interview. They focus on the first 10 minutes. Um, and Criticise the history of it. But, but as we both know, it’s, it. History’s always open to interpretation. You know, I was trying to find analogies to it, and I sort of came up with two.
[00:36:04] Tony: One would be to say, if Australia invaded New Zealand on a justification that Captain Cook landed in both places, that, you know, it’s, it’s a pretty weak justification for it. But on the other hand, if the Aboriginals say, you know, we wanna take back Australia and we wanna fight for it because we were invaded, that’s probably a closer analogy to the sort of line that Putin was pushing, that Ukraine was part of Russia historically, and it’s, you know, through various events in history got separated and now it should be rejoined.
[00:36:33] Tony: So, you know, I, I get why he’s pushing that argument. But it, but you’re right, it was weak journalism to focus on that and to try, and it was smart of Putin to pick a fight on that. Like, let the journalists debate history with him.
[00:36:45] Tony: They’re not gonna win.
[00:36:47] Cameron: Yeah, look in Tucker Carlson’s preemptive example to airing the interview, he talked about the history lesson that Putin gave him and that they, he thought it was filibustering. He’s just trying to use up the time. Um, but then he changed his view on that. Uh, I don’t, I disagree that Putin was doing that for a Russian audience because Putin has no trouble.
[00:37:13] Cameron: Communicating to a Russian audience in Russia. He, he’s in Russian Media all the time. You know, he’s written articles, he gives speeches. He doesn’t need to tell this story to a Russian audience. The Russian audience that support Putin know this story and they
[00:37:29] Cameron: know his views on it.
[00:37:30] Tony: Well, sure. But, but this was the biggest story in Russian News. I mean, every, every news outlet was trumpeting the fact that a Western journalist had come to Russia and, and sat, sat down with Putin for two hours,
[00:37:41] Tony: and it had been a good interview. So it was getting a higher media profile. And the Russian audience he may have been targeting may not live in Russia.
[00:37:47] Tony: They may have
[00:37:48] Tony: maybe expats in the west as well.
[00:37:51] Cameron: Okay. I I, I do think he’s telling that story for international audiences as well.
[00:37:58] Tony: Mm-hmm.
[00:37:59] Cameron: But here’s my point, is that whatever his reasons are for telling the story, the story’s not incorrect as far as I can tell. With the limited amount of time I’ve had to research it. And also the fact that when I read the Western Media criticisms of the history, they don’t actually point out where he’s wrong.
[00:38:19] Cameron: They don’t say, this is factually incorrect or that is factually incorrect. Look it up. They go, well, yeah, but I could say that about this. Or it’s a, or blanket statements like it’s a complete falsehood, which it’s obviously not. Now I’ve got a lot of time for Sergey Rodchenko read a couple of his books.
[00:38:38] Cameron: He’s written a lot of good books on particularly the Cold War and the Atomic Bomb. Now he’s a Russian born academic, uh, I think Canadian academic. Um, Russian Canadian, but based at John Hopkins now. But, um, it’s obviously not a complete falsehood. So again, I have this question in my head is why can’t.
[00:39:02] Cameron: Academics or the media that are choosing which academics, and we know that they pick and choose who they’re gonna quote from. Why do they have to lie about this? Why do they have to say, why can’t they say, well, look, factually what he’s saying is correct. However, his interpretation of it is biased. Why does it have to, why do they have to say it’s a complete falsehood?
[00:39:24] Cameron: I remember when, um, the invasion first happened and I was on Facebook and I saw his story and friends of mine, um, in, in the US saying the same thing, complete falsehoods, including one guy who comes from that part of the world, complete falsehoods, f you know, Putin’s, fake history, blah, blah, blah. And I go, well, tell me exactly where he is wrong with the history.
[00:39:49] Cameron: Then they just disappear and they don’t come back to it. Like, he’s not like Putin’s a, he’s not an idiot. I love the fact that he said, uh, Carlson, I believe your background is in history. Right? ’cause Carlson’s got his Bachelor of history. I was thinking, yeah, Ray’s got a Bachelor of history too. I mean, they’re not worth much in the US apparently.
[00:40:06] Cameron: Uh, he, uh, but I’m pretty sure that Putin knows his history. He’s not just making this stuff up. Like he’s, he knows what he’s talking about. He’s, he’s a smart guy. He’s very well, you know, and, and, and the other thing I always think is,
[00:40:25] Cameron: I’d love to see an American president sit down and give an hour-long lecture on history.
[00:40:32] Cameron: Could you imagine Joe Biden sitting down and giving an hour-long lecture on something that happened, like the history of a region of the world over
[00:40:40] Cameron: 1500
[00:40:41] Tony: Well, you. You’d need a, like a
[00:40:43] Tony: sign language expert beside a, beside just going, no, no, no, no. Just
[00:40:48] Tony: He
[00:40:48] Tony: didn’t mean the, he didn’t mean the
[00:40:49] Tony: president of Mexico. He meant the president
[00:40:51] Cameron: Of Egypt. Yeah. Did you see John Stewart on the Daily Show last
[00:40:56] Cameron: week covering that?
[00:40:58] Tony: no.
[00:40:59] Cameron: He was telling the story and you know how the, um, special prosecutor looking into Biden’s Garage document said that he was a,
[00:41:08] Cameron: a well-meaning not nice old man with a poor memory. And then he had the bit where Biden got up, uh, in front of the Press Corps to like dispute this.
[00:41:16] Cameron: And then he, he walked away from the podium and John was like, yes, you nailed it. And then Putin starts to walk away. And then, uh, sorry. Putin. Biden starts to walk away. Then he stops and turns around and goes back to the party, mean John’s. Like, no, don’t go back. Don’t go back. And that’s when he delivered the president of Mexico line.
[00:41:36] Tony: Uh.
[00:41:38] Cameron: Like he is like, let, let me do a, let me do a one, uh, man play of what all of Biden’s advisors were doing at this moment. It’s just they’re throwing their notepads and pulling their hair out and screaming. Uh, anyway, um, so again, uh, the key point here is that it, it, it’s often interesting when I’m analyzing media stories about stuff like this to pay attention to what they’re not saying
[00:42:05] Tony: Mm-Hmm.
[00:42:07] Cameron: versus what they are saying.
[00:42:10] Cameron: Again, it’s if he is factually incorrect, if it is a complete falsehood. Why aren’t you telling me how it’s factually incorrect? I mean, that would be the obvious thing to do. It’s complete falsehood. For example, he made, he made points 1, 2, 3, 4, and five, and they’re all, and this is why they’re incorrect, right?
[00:42:30] Cameron: When they don’t do that, my bullshit filter goes off and I’m like, hold on a second, and well, why aren’t they telling me why it’s wrong? This article goes on to say, Mr. Radchenko denies Mr. Putin’s claims that Ukraine is not a real country because it was formed in its modern form in the 20th century. Now, Putin never said, Ukraine is not a real country.
[00:42:50] Tony: Mm.
[00:42:51] Cameron: Carlson said that,
[00:42:53] Tony: Yeah.
[00:42:55] Cameron: but Putin never said that. So again, they’re putting words in his mouth to make it seem
[00:43:04] Cameron: like he’s taking view. Now, what he did say is. After World War II Ukraine received, in addition to the lands that have belonged to Poland before the war, parts of the lands that have previously belonged to Hungary and Romania today, Western Ukraine.
[00:43:18] Cameron: So Romania and Hungary had some of their lands taken away and given to the Ukraine, and they still remain part of the Ukraine. So in this sense, we have every reason to affirm that Ukraine is an artificial state that was shaped at Stalin’s will. Now, I don’t think that’s the same as saying Ukraine is not a real country.
[00:43:38] Tony: Yeah.
[00:43:39] Cameron: Am I being
[00:43:40] Tony: Look. No, no. Look, I agree with you a hundred percent. Um, but again, I, I think I’m kind of chomping at the bit to go past the history part of this interview because, uh, you know, I think, I think Putin’s very smart and he knows that a lot of the journalists wouldn’t get past the history part of the interview.
[00:43:56] Tony: And you can debate history until the cows come home and, and, uh, you know, he, neither side’s really gonna win. I agree with all your points about, about the attacks being subjective and,
[00:44:08] Tony: um, not focusing on the facts and just focusing on interpretation, but I’d much rather talk about some of the other things that Putin’s talked about in the, in the interview.
[00:44:19] Tony: Yeah.
[00:44:19] Cameron: let’s get to it
[00:44:20] Cameron: then. What do you wanna talk about?
[00:44:22] Tony: Well, I think all of the, all of the things that, um. He, he spoke about that interests me, were after that. So he, he, he made a claim that Poland started World War II, which I thought was, was interesting about the invasion of Poland and, and how they invited Hitler to, to come into Poland. Um, you know, so again, not
[00:44:43] Cameron: no, not that
[00:44:44] Tony: historical subjective interpretation, but a quite a big one I thought.
[00:44:49] Cameron: he didn’t say they invited him to come into Poland.
[00:44:52] Tony: I think he did. I’ll try and find, I’ll try and find the, the, um, art, the article, if I can do it quickly.
[00:44:58] Cameron: What he said from memory was that he called
[00:45:03] Cameron: Poland a collaborator. he said they collaborated with the, Nazis. Some historians have taken issue with that, and I think that’s a, that’s a fair thing. Like collaboration is a big word, but. What is factually correct is that when Hitler was, um, when, when the Munich agreement was signed, which was going to give Germany some land, and Czechoslovakia, Poland jumped on board and took land from Czechoslovakia as well when they were weak.
[00:45:37] Cameron: They took advantage of Czechoslovakia’s, uh, weakness at the time to grab some territory. And then Hitler wanted some territory from Poland. The Danzig corridor. Poland refused to give it up, and so Hitler invaded, but they had been in, in Putin’s words, they collaborated. Now, you know, you could pick that apart.
[00:46:06] Cameron: Did they collaborate or did they just take advantage? Like the, the issue that I’ve read that historians have is that collaboration. Suggests, uh, joint strategic diplomatic agreement to attack a, a country in this instance. Um, did they have, were there diplomatic conversations between Nazi, Germany and Poland?
[00:46:30] Cameron: Yes. Is that collaboration the way it’s portrayed as well? Poland didn’t have a lot of choice in the matter because Nazi Germany was this more powerful, aggressive country on the border, and so they had to go along with it wasn’t really collaboration. And I’m like, Hmm. Yeah. Well, you know, you could say the same thing about the Munich agreement.
[00:46:56] Cameron: Um, you know, was Neville Chamberlain collaborating with Hitler when they agreed to the Munich agreement, or was he just feeling like I. They couldn’t, they didn’t want to have a war with Nazi Germany at the time. So appeasement was the better option. Is that collaboration? I think it maybe is
[00:47:18] Tony: Yeah, maybe so. So the, you’re right about, I, I shouldn’t have said that. Putin said Poland invited Hitler in the quote is in 1939. This is Putin speaking After Poland cooperated with Hitler, it did collaborate with Hitler, you know, Hitler offered Poland Peace and a Treaty of Friendship and Alliance. We have all the relevant documents in the archives demanding in return that Poland give back to Germany.
[00:47:39] Tony: The,
[00:47:40] Tony: so-called Danzig Corridor, which connected the bulk of Germany with East Prussia and Königsberg. Yeah, so the, the, the, the claim was collaboration.
[00:47:51] Cameron: collaboration and cooperation, and
[00:47:53] Cameron: again, like he’s not wrong. From a particular point of view, you can argue what is the definition
[00:48:00] Cameron: of collaboration and cooperation. But they did, you know, they did cooperate, they did take advantage of the situation. You can say, well, they didn’t have much option, but you know, neither did the, the Vichy government in France have much option, but we still criticized them as collaborators.
[00:48:22] Cameron: I mean, you can say no and get shot, but, or you can collaborate and try and make the best of a bad situation,
[00:48:29] Cameron: I guess. I dunno,
[00:48:31] Tony: Yeah, Well, I guess like,
[00:48:33] Tony: sorry. No, I’m not disagreeing with you. I guess the reason for raising that is to talk about, there seems to be the, the link between what happened in that part of Europe and World War II and what’s happening in Ukraine and neo-Nazis, and that that was a, a kind of a key point that, that Putin’s making.
[00:48:49] Tony: He was, he was saying that one of his reasons for invading Ukraine is a denazification, or that’s one of, one of his requirements for a truce is the Denazification of U of Ukraine. And I thought, I still think that’s very interesting. And, and again, I’m wondering whether he’s, he’s playing to his audience at home on that one because I read a couple of articles.
[00:49:10] Tony: NPR was this one. Uh, NPR was a good one. Um, about, about the issue in Ukraine, I won’t read it out, it’s quite long. But basically it says that, um, sure they’re in the N Nazis in Ukraine, about 2% of the population. There’s the people who fall in the, I think it’s called the ZOS Regimen. Um. Before the Ukraine war and during the Ukraine war.
[00:49:33] Tony: Uh, but they point out that 2% of the population who claim to be neo-Nazis is actually less than that. The situation in the US where there’s far more ultra-right, uh, members of the public than in Ukraine. So it’s a fairly normal thing in a lot of Western countries. It’s particularly in Europe to have, uh, sort of fringe neo-Nazi element.
[00:49:51] Tony: So why, why do you think
[00:49:53] Tony: Putin is making a big deal of Denazification, the denazification of
[00:49:59] Tony: Ukraine?
[00:50:01] Cameron: I think, I think this is, um, part of, you know, his, um, propaganda back to his home audience. Um, and I’ve always felt that this is the weakest of his arguments and his justifications. But what I also have seen happen in the last couple of years is how the Western media has absolutely tried to refute. This argument that there are neo-Nazis in Ukraine when before February, 2000 twenty-two, the Western media was regularly running stories about Nazis being a big problem in Ukraine.
[00:50:47] Cameron: And I’ve got an archive of documents about this. Here’s a quote from a rolling, recent Rolling Stone article about the interview. It says, Putin spoke at length about his wish to bring Denazification to Ukraine. And while the nation does have a dark history of association with Nazism and neo-Nazi factions, particularly in the context of World War II experts widely agree, this is a propaganda ploy used as a justification for the invasion.
[00:51:13] Cameron: Except, um, you know, there are lots of, uh, articles, as I said that seem to think that West had a problem with the Nazis in Ukraine before the invasion. Here’s a link to a Reuters article. From, um, the 7th of February, 2024, it said, oh, hold on. No, that’s on, uh, that’s on Nord Stream. Let me, um, get to the find.
[00:51:49] Cameron: Yes. Here we go. This is from the Guardian in 2014, Azov fighters are Ukraine’s greatest weapon and maybe its greatest threat. And this is around about the time of the beginning of the Donbass situation, the Guardian says, but there is an increasing worry that while the Azov and other volunteer battalions might be Ukraine’s most potent and reliable force on the battlefield against the separatists, they also pose the most serious threat to the Ukrainian government and perhaps even the state.
[00:52:17] Cameron: When the conflict in the east is over. The Azov causes particular concern due to the far right, even neo-Nazi leanings of many of its members. The battalion’s symbol is reminiscent of the Nazi wolf’s angel. Though the battalion claims, it is in fact meant to be the letters N and I crossed over each other standing for national idea.
[00:52:37] Cameron: Many of its members have links with neo-Nazi groups, and even those who laughed off the idea that they are neo-Nazis did not give the most convincing denials. Fighters from the battalion told the Guardian last month, they expected a new revolution in Ukraine that would bring a more decisive military leader to power in sentiments similar to those of many Azov fighters.
[00:52:58] Cameron: Despite the desire of many in the Azov to bring violence to Kiev when the war in the east is over. The battalion receives funding and assistance from the governor of the Donetsk region, the oligarch Serhii Taruta. In 2018, the US declared C-Fourteen or S-Fourteen, the CIS Group, uh, in Ukraine as a hate group.
[00:53:23] Cameron: And I’ve got a, an article from Radio Liberty, which is a. US, uh, propaganda Radio station in Europe. Set up part of the Marshall plan says Ivan Stupak, a former SBU employee, SBU being the secret service of the Ukraine with 10 years of experience, said at certain stages the SBU involved its operational contacts.
[00:53:49] Cameron: That is, they found certain common points of view with leaders of C-Fourteen, and directed them to solve certain operational tasks. Um, and it goes on to talk about all the connections between government funding and Secret service and the far-right movement, et cetera, et cetera. So there’s plenty of stories like that.
[00:54:09] Cameron: Uh, but from before twenty-Twenty-two Western governments and the Western media definitely did see these Nazi groups in Ukraine as a significant issue. But post the twenty-two invasion, oh, it’s all just propaganda that Putin. Is spinning. Now, I do think, as I said, it’s his, probably his weakest argument. I think his strongest justification is for is the Nazi, the NATO, uh, enlargement.
[00:54:37] Cameron: But,
[00:54:39] Cameron: you know, I do think he is being genuine when he says part of the conditions that they have is the elimination of neo-Nazis off the border between Ukraine and Russia. I mean, I, I, you know, it’s important for us outside of Russia to remember that the Nazis killed 20 million Russians in World War II
[00:55:04] Cameron: and you know, part of.
[00:55:07] Cameron: The breakup of Germany after World War II was to ensure that the Russians were never bothered by the Germans, the fascists. Again, fascists obviously having a big hatred at the time for communists and Jews, uh, and particularly Jewish communists, um, Ukraine. It’s more Catholic fascists that have been the problem.
[00:55:28] Cameron: But, you know, he, it is a, I think it’s a genuine concern and I think it’s a, a genuine issue, whether or not it’s as big a deal as he makes it out to be,
[00:55:38] Cameron: you know,
[00:55:39] Tony: Well, well actually, I mean, I highlight it because I think, I think you’re right. I think it was a big deal and I think that there was certainly Russian. Speakers in Donbass who were chased out back into Russia by, by, uh, some element of that military slash neo-Nazi, um, power in the Donbass reasons. So I think it is actually an, an issue.
[00:56:03] Tony: Um, but, but as you say, that’s one of the things about the war that gets, gets clouded. It’s, uh, the West has gone from a, from acknowledging the existence of these people to saying it’s propaganda by Putin. But I actually think it’s a key issue for them, not just because of the history of fighting against the Nazis and, and all of that, but because in the Donbass region that’s kind of borderland.
[00:56:25] Tony: There is a, I can’t, I can’t speak to it being a, a neo-Nazi mentality, I’ll call it the pro-Ukrainian mentality. And there’s a Russian affiliated population, and the two haven’t mixed very well, and I think Putin probably is legitimate in asking for claims. Whether it should be called Denazification or not
[00:56:43] Tony: is another issue.
[00:56:45] Cameron: The ABC had an article that I read, Tucker Carlson Vladimir Putin interview explained. It said. Russia’s aim to denazify, Eastern Ukraine, a claim that has been described as propaganda by hundreds of historians who study genocide. I read that and I thought, what if historians who, what do historians who have studied genocide have to do with his claims about Nazis in Ukraine?
[00:57:11] Cameron: It seems like a non-secretary, but, but I read, um, this article again, this is, um, from Radio Freedom. Facebook bans Ukrainian, far-right Group Over Hate speech, but getting rid of it isn’t easy. And it said Human rights groups such as Free. This is from 2019. Human rights groups such as Freedom House of Warned that Azov’s increasing visibility and impunity is a cause for concern.
[00:57:37] Cameron: Far-right? Political forces present a real threat. To the democratic development of Ukrainian society set a recent Freedom House report referring to Azov and similar groups. That threat is not due to political support. Polls show its political party. National Core is supported by less than 1% of Ukrainians.
[00:57:54] Cameron: But because the far right is aggressively trying to impose the regender on Ukrainian society, including by using force against those who oppose political and cultural views. Last month, group of seven ambassadors in Kiev sent a letter to Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov urging him to act against the groups, which it said threatened to disrupt the country’s election and usurp the role of the Ukrainian National Police.
[00:58:20] Cameron: The ambassadors asked the ministers to also consider outlawing the groups down the road. Would you be so kind as to outlaw Nazi groups? That’d be great. Thanks. So in twenty-nineteen, the G-Seven was writing a letter to the Ukrainian government. Say, you’ve gotta denazify your country. Now Putin says it and everyone’s like,
[00:58:41] Cameron: ah, what’s he talking about?
[00:58:42] Cameron: It’s all
[00:58:43] Tony: Yeah. And look, and not just that, but like this NPR article. Uh, talks about, it’s a harmful distortion and dilution of history. They say, talking about the, um, Holocaust experts, even though many people appear not to be buying at this time round. Laura Jakusch, a professor of Holocaust studies at Brandeis University in Massachusetts told NPR over email that Putin’s claims about the Ukrainian army allegedly perpetrating a genocide against Russians in the Donbass region are completely unfounded, but politically useful to him.
[00:59:14] Cameron: See, like,
[00:59:15] Cameron: so
[00:59:15] Tony: Were they there? That’s the first thing. But the other thing too is these articles always end with the point
[00:59:20] Tony: being made. Anzalensky is a Jew.
[00:59:23] Cameron: yeah.
[00:59:24] Tony: As if, as if that kind
[00:59:25] Tony: of, you can just go, okay, well, we’ll just wipe our hands of a
[00:59:27] Tony: Nazi problem in Ukraine then.
[00:59:29] Cameron: Which Putin himself said in the interview, and he said, and Zelensky’s father or grandfather fought the Nazis. He goes, why? I said to this is Putin saying it. He said, I said to Zelensky, why aren’t you getting rid of these guys like your own father or grandfather who was fought against these guys? Seems strange to me that you’re allowing them in your country, but what am I gonna do?
[00:59:51] Cameron: Kind of thing. Um, but like, I dunno, man, like it just drives me nuts that Cameron Reilly with a couple of hours on his hands can look up the history of neo-Nazis in Ukraine and there’s all this stuff. And yet the mainstream media seems to think they can just run this stuff. And like, there’s just no sense of, oh, maybe we should
[01:00:16] Cameron: just tell the truth about this. And, you
[01:00:18] Tony: and there’s, no fact-checking, right? Like you would think NPR, which is the National public radio in the US, would have a more independent stance on things, but. Putin says that he needs to denazify Ukraine. They go straight to an academic who disagrees with that, and they publish the academic side.
[01:00:33] Tony: Now, whether this is meant to be balanced journalism, I’ve got Putin’s argument on one hand, and there’s academics on the other. I’m not sure, but it doesn’t, I found it very hard to get to the facts on this, you know, what is happening in the Donbass region? How many, how many Russian speakers had fled across the border back into Russia?
[01:00:50] Tony: Was that a legitimate reason for Putin invading and what’s happening now? Why is there a Jewish president in in Ukraine, but he’s allowing the neo-Nazi Azov’s brigade to take a lead part in the war? They’re really interesting questions. I don’t have an opinion either way, but I’m not getting at the facts through the media.
[01:01:09] Cameron: Well, you know that before Zelensky was the president of Ukraine, he played the president of Ukraine on television. Which reminds me of,
[01:01:17] Cameron: I don’t know, just Ronald,
[01:01:19] Tony: Ronald, Reagan Yeah.
[01:01:21] Cameron: even to a certain extent.
[01:01:23] Tony: Yeah.
[01:01:23] Cameron: also, look, we’ve, we’ve talked about this a lot on this show, Tony, but there, um, are you aware of the Victoria Newland
[01:01:30] Cameron: phone
[01:01:31] Cameron: call from 2014?
[01:01:32] Cameron: You’ve
[01:01:33] Tony: I’ve heard it on your show before.
[01:01:34] Tony: Yeah.
[01:01:34] Cameron: Right. So there seems to be, uh, that as evidence that, uh, among other things like her talking in other interviews about
[01:01:44] Cameron: how much money they spent on democracy in Ukraine before the Maidan protests it, it just fits the, the template, the CIA’s template that they’ve been following since they overthrew Mossadegh in the early fifties in Iran for going into a country, uh, behind the scenes funding.
[01:02:09] Cameron: Protest movements, activists, uh, political troublemakers saying, listen, do this. We’ll, we’ll have your back, you know, we’ll, we’ll give you air cover, et cetera, et cetera, and if you win, we will support, you know, you and your chosen, or we’ll tell you who to put in power, but we’ll give you air cover. It just fits the model.
[01:02:29] Cameron: And then when that call was leaked, it just seems to be pretty strong evidence that that’s what was
[01:02:35] Cameron: going on behind the
[01:02:36] Tony: Yeah, well, I’m gonna draw a longer bow, right? That, that the, if the CIA was gonna fund anybody, it’s more likely to be on the right than on the left. And if, if the, if the military industrial complex in the States is funneling money towards fighting in the Ukraine, and the league group is the ASOS group and they have links to neo-Nazis, and you could also draw the line that America’s happily funding them.
[01:03:01] Tony: So
[01:03:03] Tony: we’re not finding out what’s going on
[01:03:05] Tony: here, unfortunately.
[01:03:06] Cameron: Well, the US tends to. Support whoever’s going to best serve their interests, which makes sense, whether they’re on the left or the right, but usually it’s on the right, as you say. Um, there’s the famous, uh, uh, what was her name? Jeannie. Something begins with Letter F doctrine. Can’t remember her name. Fitz Gibbons or something like that.
[01:03:36] Cameron: Fitzsimmons. She was a strategic advisor, uh, in the Reagan years and basically her doctrine was, yeah, it’s easier for us to do business with guys who are on the right than guys on the left. Right. You
[01:03:52] Tony: Yeah.
[01:03:52] Cameron: So they’re usually gonna be the ones we’ll do business with. The other issue that all these articles take is about the outbreak of the conflict in Donbass in 2014, uh, which they usually try and, um, lay at the feet of Putin, make it sound like Putin invaded.
[01:04:13] Cameron: But I always point to a Rand Corporation, uh, um, article investigation report on this Rand Corporation being obviously a, an American, um, think tank when they did their report on it, uh, 10 years ago. They said the conflict started as a local affair, but was quickly supported by Russia. Set a coterie of, well-known local political agitators, businessmen and members of fringe political organisations with a Russian imperialist bent led the effort.
[01:04:48] Cameron: Moscow sought to foster this movement in Ukraine through oligarchic connections and intertwined circles of powerful regional business interests. Combined with local criminal elements. The tactics appeared to be improvised, employing a diversity of individuals with little in common, other than their opposition to Ukraine’s new government.
[01:05:06] Cameron: Russia fostered the subversion with a supporting cast of intelligence operatives, its own citizens and informal network of fighters from the post-Soviet space and local security forces who turned against Ukraine’s government. So if the Americans were running their own. Secret operations to install a pro-American government in Ukraine Russia had their own forces in there to maintain a pro-Russian government.
[01:05:33] Cameron: Uh, and the two were fighting behind the scenes. But you know, what ended up happening is the Donbass breakout was genuinely, according to Rand, a civil war. It was a local affair with both sides, you know, having secret support from other major powers. Um, but it was at Moscow marching an army in Now what the distinction is between the two, you know, there’s another
[01:06:03] Cameron: story
[01:06:05] Tony: Yeah.
[01:06:05] Tony: But, uh, that’s, and that’s a good point too. We, we’ve,
[01:06:08] Tony: you know, we might sound, I might sound critical of the US on all this, but it happens on
[01:06:12] Tony: both sides. We’re just calling it out ’cause it’s not reported.
[01:06:15] Cameron: Yeah. I mean, we, anyone who’s spent any time studying Cold War history, uh, knows that this is the way the Cold War has been played out. You know, it’s, uh, uh, uh, it’s a, it’s a soft power. It’s hybrid warfare. You’re trying to influence the, the, the media and the government and the businesses and the politicians in a country using bribery and influence and, uh, promises and all that kind of stuff, and, and all of the major powers, if they can afford to do it, do it.
[01:06:48] Cameron: I, I tend to subscribe to John Mearsheimer’s geopolitical realism camp that says that major powers in any region, um, know that if they’re not the strongest power in the region, then they’ll, they’re gonna get attacked. They’re gonna be, you know, attacked by other stronger powers. It gets back to the dark forest hypothesis kind of right, that if.
[01:07:15] Cameron: If you are a power in a region and you think there’s another power coming up that may be stronger than you, you kind of have an incentive to get in and hobble them or weaken them or take them over. Because if they become more powerful than you in the future, then you are the victim.
[01:07:30] Tony: Mm-Hmm.
[01:07:30] Cameron: It’s just political
[01:07:32] Tony: And we’re seeing it play out with Australia and the Pacific. Islands at the moment too, as Russia tries to ramp up if its influence and Australia has to counter. So it happens in every, uh, China, I’m
[01:07:42] Tony: sorry, China, uh, it happens in every sphere of influence. I agree. But we just don’t read about
[01:07:47] Tony: it overtly.
[01:07:50] Tony: We try and put the, try and connect the dots, but we don’t read about it overtly.
[01:07:53] Cameron: it
[01:07:53] Cameron: doesn’t get talked about in, you know, mainstream media outlets, like, okay, Mearsheimer does. But as Mearsheimer says, like increasingly he and his colleagues, uh, who push realism just a shut out of the media. I, I heard him being interviewed. I think it was on Lex Friedman’s podcast a while back, and he was saying like, even in the early two thousands when he and, um, his colleague whose name escapes me, wrote a book on the Is,
[01:08:27] Cameron: Hmm,
[01:08:27] Tony: Was it Green Wall?
[01:08:29] Cameron: no, no, no.
[01:08:31] Cameron: Um, he’s passed away, but he was a leading scholar, uh, Stephen Walt when he and Stephen Walt wrote a book called The Israel Lobby, which I read 20 odd years ago, talking about the, the influence that the Israel lobby has in US politics. Uh, he said even though they got attacked right across the board, at least they were given airtime.
[01:08:55] Cameron: You know, they were able, they were being interviewed in the New York Times and they were on television and that kinda stuff. He said, now no one will even. Talk to us, uh, about, you know, what’s going on in Russia and Ukraine. It’s like he said, it’s far more of a closed down media ecosystem today than it was 20, 30 years ago
[01:09:18] Cameron: in the United States,
[01:09:20] Tony: That’s interesting, isn’t it? I mean, that’s, that speaks
[01:09:23] Tony: and that speaks volumes though, doesn’t it?
[01:09:25] Tony: If, if the, if a media outlet’s applying council culture, rather than saying, come and debate this
[01:09:29] Tony: with the Israel lobby, uh, it’s not really journalism, is it?
[01:09:33] Cameron: Um, no, it’s, it’s, well, you know, I mean, I, however you wanna define journalism. Um, I’ve got some other
[01:09:42] Tony: Yeah.
[01:09:43] Cameron: here I wanna run through. So, um, this is, uh, from the BBC for fans who managed to stay tuned any longer. The reward was a rerun of Putin’s top twisted arguments. some neutral journalism for you. Um, he, they go on to say he aired his regular grievance about NATO expanding east into what Russia sees as its area of influence. We never agreed Ukraine could join NATO, as Putin put it, but it’s having an aggressive, unpredictable neighbor like Russia that’s led Ukraine to seek extra security.
[01:10:22] Cameron: Not true. Uh, we know the history of this. We know that all of the polls in Ukraine. Said, uh, you know, going back 20, uh, 10, 20 years ago showed that that people had no interest in joining NATO. But then the coup happened and there was, uh, a lot of investment by NATO in, uh, Ukraine to build up, like promotion for NATO.
[01:10:53] Cameron: A lot of funding in there. And of course, then they ended up with a pro-American government after the 2014 quote, coup if it in fact was a coup, which, and they’ve been pushed into joining NATO by various forces. But before that, Ukrainians had no interest in joining NATO, nato, uh, it’s, they say Putin has always characterized the mass public protests in Kiev a decade ago as part of a western backed coup, which they were not, says the BBC, according to whom, based on what evidence.
[01:11:24] Cameron: Mentioned Victoria Newland’s phone call. No, just, and this is BBC man.
[01:11:30] Cameron: Like, um,
[01:11:32] Tony: It’s journalism. It’s really, it’s really editorial, isn’t it? It’s not journalism at all.
[01:11:36] Cameron: yeah, It’s all editorial these days. Um, New York Times Tucker Carlson’s lesson in the perils of giving airtime to
[01:11:43] Cameron: an autocrat. Mr. Putin conducted a history lecture that provided a one-sided, often false narrative about Ukraine says The New York Times one-sided. Yes. False. Probably not. Hillary Clinton in an interview this week with Alex Wagner of MSNBC called, uh, Carlson a useful Idiot, and Mr.
[01:12:04] Cameron: Putin’s puppy dog Mr. Carlson gave Mr. Putin room for uninterrupted disquisitions. That’s a new word for me.
[01:12:13] Cameron: What’s a disquisition? Tony? You ever use that
[01:12:15] Cameron: in a
[01:12:16] Tony: no idea. No.
[01:12:17] Cameron: On longstanding and decidedly one-sided grievances about Ukraine’s origins and independence movements, said un uninterrupted. He actually did interrupt him a number of times, Carlson, in that first half hour rant.
[01:12:32] Cameron: He kept trying to interrupt him, and Putin was just like, just, just hold on. Let me, let me finish my story. And he would
[01:12:38] Tony: seconds more, 30 seconds more.
[01:12:40] Cameron: he was saying he was uninterrupted, but it’s not. He, Carlson tried to, I interrupt him on a number. Carlson looked very confused and very troubled from the beginning of the
[01:12:48] Cameron: whole thing.
[01:12:49] Cameron: Like, where’s
[01:12:49] Cameron: this going?
[01:12:50] Tony: I’d be inclined to agree with someone who said that Carlson Softballed Putin.
[01:12:54] Cameron: Softballed him, sure, but
[01:12:55] Tony: tried, tried to interrupt a
[01:12:56] Tony: couple of times, but but once every 10 minutes isn’t really, you know,
[01:13:00] Cameron: but what are you
[01:13:01] Cameron: gonna do? I mean, how are you gonna say, look, just shut the fuck up Mr. Putin,
[01:13:06] Cameron: and, and answer my questions. I mean, you’re not gonna get anywhere with that, I don’t think Putin’s gonna
[01:13:12] Cameron: let you run things. Although the
[01:13:14] Tony: I, I must imagine,
[01:13:15] Tony: sorry. I, imagine, that the, one of the conditions for the interview was that it couldn’t be edited too otherwise, you know, uh, Carlson may
[01:13:23] Tony: have decided just to let it run and then cut it down for use, but he didn’t do that. So I’m guessing that was a condition.
[01:13:29] Cameron: Probably. And, um, I was gonna say that, you know, uh, since the interview, Putin has come out in Russian Media and said that he, he found the interview disappointing and almost
[01:13:40] Tony: Yeah,
[01:13:42] Cameron: Carlson’s taking a victory lap. And Putin’s, like, I actually expected him to ask some hard questions. Like, uh, I, I was prepared for an aggressive
[01:13:51] Cameron: interview and it was really not.
[01:13:52] Cameron: So, so
[01:13:54] Cameron: that’s,
[01:13:55] Tony: yeah. No, exactly.
[01:13:57] Cameron: Putin’s, even Putin’s not giving him, uh,
[01:14:00] Cameron: any, any props for it.
[01:14:02] Tony: And Putin said a lot of interesting things. I mean, the whole, there was a discussion, well, there was a, the
[01:14:06] Tony: point about Boris Johnson intervening in the, in the Peace
[01:14:10] Tony: talks, I Ukraine we’re having with Russia. I mean that, that, that could have been a whole topic of interviewing itself, but it just sort of
[01:14:16] Tony: sailed through.
[01:14:18] Cameron: Yeah, and we’ve, we’ve talked about that on this show. We, we know that that’s true. Um, we know that they were, you know, Zelensky and, and Putin, uh, all their representatives were on the verge of signing an agreement early in 2022. Then Boris Johnson, when he was still Prime Minister, made a three day trip to Kiev, and then the deal was off.
[01:14:40] Cameron: And basically, Boris Johnson in his own words, said that he told Zelensky not to surrender, that he had the full support of the West. Now, what else he said, uh, about what would happen to Zelensky if he did surrender? Um, we don’t know, but it’s, it’s quite obvious that the war would’ve been over. Within a couple of months if the US and the UK hadn’t decided to prolong it forever.
[01:15:08] Cameron: Which reminds me a lot of the Afghanistan situation in the late seventies, which I’ve done shows about, it was deliberately extended for 10 years by the United States in the words of Zbigniew, Brzezinski, Jimmy, Carter’s, national Security Advisor, uh, at the time. He later said that he went into Carter and said, if we play this right, we can give the Soviet Union its own Vietnam.
[01:15:39] Cameron: And then he was quite proud of the fact that they did that later in life, um, that they managed to economically bogged down and cripple the Soviet Union by supporting the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. And this, to me just looks like the same thing. They’re using the Ukrainians as. Uh, fodder now to try and further weaken
[01:16:01] Cameron: Russia economically New York
[01:16:04] Tony: Potentially it’s, it’s backfiring though in the us. I mean, they’re, they’re the one who’s bogged down in Congress with contention over paying so much for the war in, in Ukraine.
[01:16:13] Cameron: Yeah, but the guys in the US that got the
[01:16:15] Cameron: money, it all played out
[01:16:18] Cameron: perfectly, right? I mean, the way I’ve always pictured it’s a win-win
[01:16:21] Cameron: situation for American businesses with this if they win and they managed to keep control of Ukraine. Then they get access to its markets, they get access to. Its, its natural resources.
[01:16:34] Cameron: They, they get, you know, bases again, more bases on the border of Russia to further weaken Russia. I mean, what’s up for grabs is all of the energy supply into
[01:16:44] Tony: grain.
[01:16:45] Cameron: you know, and grain. Yeah. Right. All of that, all of the economic supply that Russia has a big chunk of, if you’re an American business person with interests in Europe and in the Middle East, et cetera, et cetera, you want to get access to those markets.
[01:16:59] Cameron: If they, so if they win the war, they get that, or get to keep that or get more of that. If they lose the war, well, you know, we still got a hundred billion dollars of, uh, American taxpayers money over a few years, like happy days.
[01:17:14] Cameron: Right. It’s a
[01:17:15] Tony: Yeah. So there’s no incentive to do the, to do a negotiation. Is there a peace negotiation?
[01:17:21] Cameron: Not if you are an American businessman or an American politician. Yeah, if you’re a Ukrainian soldier, maybe, or a
[01:17:27] Cameron: Russian soldier. Um, another interesting thing in the New York Times, as Putin threatens despair and hedging in Europe,
[01:17:35] Cameron: it actually admits that Putin was complaining about NATO expansion back in 2007.
[01:17:40] Cameron: It talks about this conference that just happened at the Hotel Bayeriska Hof. It says in the Hotel Bayeriska Hof, the conference stage where Mr. Putin warned in 2007 that NATO’s eastern expansion was a threat to Russia Mr. Navalny’s widow made an emotional appearance on Friday hours after a husband’s death reminding attendees that Mr.
[01:18:03] Cameron: Putin would bear responsibility for it. Um, leaving aside the Navalny stuff, uh, it’s a rare admission in the Western media that the NATO expansion issue. Didn’t just start getting invented by Putin in February, 2022. You know, that normally in Western media just gets rejected out hand as being nonsense.
[01:18:30] Cameron: Got nothing to do with NATO, despite the fact that Putin and before him, um, you know, going back to Gorbachev and then, um, who was the guy after Gorbachev? I’ve got a mental blank. Uh, Yeltsin, Yeltsin all took issue with the NATO expansion when it started happening in ninety-six under Clinton. I. You know, they’ve been beating on about it for nearly 30 years.
[01:18:59] Cameron: Stop the NATO expansion. Stop the NATO expansion. Stop the NATO expansion. Finally, they invade and they say, why are NATO expansion? What? That’s dev. Well, that’s got nothing to do with it. Never heard that before. Like seriously. And again, the way the media just writes it off as that, it’s just nonsense. It’s got nothing to do with NATO expansion.
[01:19:16] Cameron: Like it boggles the mind.
[01:19:18] Tony: Yeah.
[01:19:19] Cameron: CBC, Canadian broadcasters barely mentions Putin’s actual talking points. Only after 30 paragraphs of Criticising Carlson did they get to anything that Putin had to say.
[01:19:33] Cameron: Putin, in the Russian interview where he said that the interview was disappointing also said he’d rather have Biden continue as US president because he’s predictable. Can you imagine if he’d said the opposite, how the Democrats would be losing their damn minds at the moment if he said, oh, I’d rather have Trump as president.
[01:19:49] Cameron: See? See? Trump’s a Russian puppet. He said, Biden, and this is like
[01:19:56] Cameron: crickets.
[01:19:57] Tony: Yeah. Biden’s, other Putin puppet. Yeah. No, I, I did see that one too. The other interesting thing I thought, um, that was, let’s slide by Carlson again, was when Putin told his story about,
[01:20:08] Tony: uh, going to Clinton and saying, uh, Hey, that Russia joined NATO? Were you, and Clinton said, yeah, okay. And then came back that night and said, no,
[01:20:16] Tony: sorry.
[01:20:16] Tony: Can’t do it.
[01:20:17] Cameron: My advisors told me I can’t do that. Yeah. Yeah. That’s well, uh, documented as well that Russia tried to join NATO. I. Just got shut out. Um, you know, and this goes right back to, um, Gorbachev, plenty of interviews on record about this when they were doing the whole collapsing of the Soviet Union and, uh, you know, the, the promise about No NATO and he agreed to the reunification of Germany.
[01:20:48] Cameron: He was putting forward propositions that they form a new security, global security alliance that they could all be part of and, you know, was given nods and winks. Oh, sure, sure, sure. We can do that. And then just shut out. It just, you know, once the Americans felt that they’d won the Cold War, they weren’t giving up any play in anything.
[01:21:08] Cameron: Politico called it a two-hour love-in, they mentioned the Russian President’s fanciful history lesson. On the Nord Stream stuff, they said several countries have been publicly blamed for the explosions with varying degrees of evidence. Ukraine has said Russia was responsible, which the Kremlin has denied.
[01:21:27] Cameron: While Moscow has previously blamed the UK without presenting any evidence to support that assertion, either, they don’t mention at all the, uh, us, uh, being involved. Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist at his sources said it was the CIA. They don’t mention that. They don’t mention that the US blamed Ukraine for it either.
[01:21:49] Cameron: Um, just not worth mentioning apparently. Um, there’s, um, I mentioned that, that there’s a Reuters article for the 7th of February. Uh, the Rolling Stone said, um, something about. Uh, we’re talking about the Nord Stream, the Rolling Stone Magazine article said Investigations have yet to determine who was behind the sabotage.
[01:22:14] Cameron: And then they link to a Reuters article from the 7th of February. It says, the White House last year dismissed a blog post by a US investigative journalist alleging Washington was behind explosions as utterly false and complete fiction. I was like, they fucking wrote off Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer, Prize winning investigative journalist who broke the My Lai story massacre in Vietnam, who broke the Abu Ghraib torture story 20 years ago as a blog post by a US investigative journalist.
[01:22:49] Cameron: Like it makes it sound like it’s some hack conspiracy, like it’s me sitting in my bedroom writing about it. You know, fucking Seymour Hersh. They just write off
[01:23:00] Cameron: like, seriously, this
[01:23:02] Tony: they can ’cause none of the, none of the, none of the outlets in the
[01:23:04] Tony: America, America picked that up. You’d think the first thing that the head of the Washington Post would do is say, oh, who’s journalists? Let’s, let’s go and talk to them. Let’s see what their sources are. Let’s, let’s, you know, try and replicate the work that they did.
[01:23:16] Cameron: all the New York Times where he won a Pulitzer Prize,
[01:23:19] Tony: yeah. Oh no. We’ll just take the press release
[01:23:22] Tony: from Washington and read. I
[01:23:23] Tony: print that.
[01:23:24] Cameron: like I’ve, You know, I read Seymour Hurst’s blog, um, and he’s, you know, been saying for, uh, whatever it’s been now, six months since he wrote that story. You can tell by the lack of coverage that my story is getting.
[01:23:38] Tony: is accurate.
[01:23:39] Cameron: How close to the bone it is, right? Yeah. If it was wrong and they knew it was wrong, they would come out and say that the fact that they are, you know, tackling what’s actually being said in it, um, stands for itself.
[01:23:53] Cameron: They go on, sorry. In the Reuters article to say, the US and German Media have reported that the yacht could have been used by Ukrainian or pro-Ukrainian groups citing leaked intelligence reports and people familiar with official investigations. Kiev has repeatedly denied any involvement. The Washington Post citing leaked information posted online wrote last June that the United States learned of a Ukrainian plan to attack the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline three months before they were damaged.
[01:24:21] Cameron: So of course what happened is when Seymour Hearst came out with his story, the uh, Washington Post slash US government came out with their own
[01:24:30] Cameron: story. Oh, well we heard
[01:24:33] Cameron: that it was probably
[01:24:34] Tony: Our sources say,
[01:24:35] Cameron: did it. Uh.
[01:24:38] Cameron: You know, and it just goes on like, um, the, the amount of
[01:24:44] Cameron: obfuscation. The other thing that I wanted to point out that Putin talked about a lot that didn’t get any coverage in any of the articles that I saw was the role that the failure of the Minsk agreements
[01:24:55] Cameron: played.
[01:24:56] Tony: Yeah, I, I was gonna highlight that?
[01:24:58] Tony: too.
[01:24:58] Cameron: What,
[01:24:58] Cameron: what did you have on that?
[01:25:00] Tony: No, no. Go ahead. I, I’ve gotta find my notes.
[01:25:03] Cameron: Well, for people who, uh, first time listeners, um,
[01:25:08] Cameron: uh, uh, when the whole thing broke out in the Donbass region in 2014, there were
[01:25:12] Cameron: a number of attempts to try and bring about a peace settlement there. They were called the Minsk agreements because the meetings happens in, in Minsk and Belarus. Um, and it looked like they had a, a template for.
[01:25:28] Cameron: Some sort of a settlement in the Donbass region. And again, it just failed. And aspersions were cast around as to who failed and why they failed and who was to blame for not upholding their end of the agreement. A bit like the whole, you know, Palestine Israel thing that’s been going on forever, each side blames the other.
[01:25:47] Cameron: But, um, Putin puts the blame on the failure of the Minsk agreements on Ukraine in the West for not upholding their end of it. And there is, there’s a fa uh, um, a fascinating interview with Angela Merkel, who was one of the sponsors of the agreement when she was the Chancellor of Germany. She was interviewed by a German magazine, desight recently, where she said that the Minsk agreements had been an attempt to give Ukraine time to defend itself. She said, um. Putin said, it turns out that no one was gonna fulfill all these Minsk agreements, and the point was only to pump up Ukraine with weapons and prepare it for hostilities. So then I got this from, um, Reuters. Uh, I think according to former German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, the Minsk agreement served to buy time to Rearm Ukraine.
[01:26:48] Cameron: I’ve got the actual interview here from Dezeit. It says this is quoting Merkel, but that requires us to also say what exactly the alternatives were at the time. I thought the initiation of NATO accession. By Ukraine and Georgia, which was discussed in 2008, was wrong. The countries neither had the necessary prerequisites for this, nor had the consequences of such a decision been fully thought through, both with regard to Russia’s actions against Georgia and Ukraine and to NATO and its assistance rules.
[01:27:21] Cameron: And the 2014 Minsk agreement was an attempt to give Ukraine time. The aim was to gain time through a ceasefire in order to later achieve peace between Russia and Ukraine. She also used this time to become stronger. As you can see today, the Ukraine of 2014 15 is not the Ukraine of today. As we saw in the battle for the Bolshev railway town in Donbass at the beginning of 2015, Putin could have easily overrun them back then, and I very much doubt that the NATO countries could have done as much back then as they do now to help Ukraine. So, um, yeah, basically she seems to be confirming Putin’s assertion that the Minsk agreements were really just, uh, an attempt by the West to buy time to, you know, rearm Ukraine and build them up so they could basically, uh, not sign a peace agreement with
[01:28:25] Cameron: Russia,
[01:28:27] Tony: And also I think, um, as Putin alluded to, the Minsk agreement never really held, there was always
[01:28:31] Tony: ongoing breakouts of fighting over that time as well. And, and you know, basically he was saying he couldn’t trust the signatories to the Minsk agreement.
[01:28:41] Cameron: particularly when, you know, one of the key sponsors of it comes out and says, we, we were just using it to buy time in the
[01:28:47] Cameron: first place. It
[01:28:47] Cameron: wasn’t, wasn’t serious.
[01:28:49] Tony: Yeah. And it wasn’t just Merkel, it was the, um, other German, uh, leader before her, I think, I’m just trying to find his name. Uh, Steinem Steinman. Anyway, one of the, one of the, uh, key negotiators and of, of that time might not have been a, sorry, she, he might not have been, uh, Merkel’s equivalent, but certainly someone
[01:29:08] Tony: higher up in Germany also came out and said it wasn’t working.
[01:29:12] Cameron: Yeah.
[01:29:13] Tony: Just trying to find his name now.
[01:29:15] Cameron: And
[01:29:16] Tony: yeah, sorry.
[01:29:17] Cameron: well, and the thing is, I guess my point was gonna be I, This doesn’t get talked about in the Western media. You know, the fact that the Minsk agreements were just a furphy. Secondly, um, again, Putin’s, no dummy. Whatever you think of Putin, if he’s the embodiment of all that is evil or not, he’s no dummy.
[01:29:40] Cameron: And if, and, and if he knows that the peace agreements or the, the, the attempts in good faith to negotiate a settlement in the Donbass region would just deploy, used by the Wests to buy time to so they could, um, and fund and, you know, start building bases and putting weapons on the border of Russia. What do you do?
[01:30:04] Cameron: This is a question I’ve always asked about this. If, if you are Putin, what do you do? What are your options? If you’ve spent 30 years trying to reach a diplomatic negotiation about NATO expansion, that has just been ignored. And, and, and again, this didn’t come up. I’m surprised it didn’t come up. Carlson asked him when the last time he spoke to Biden was, and Putin just sort of like, I, I don’t know.
[01:30:25] Cameron: I don’t remember. I can’t remember everything. I know it was just, it was January, 2022. They discussed, well, Putin tried to discuss. Ukraine joining NATO and Biden told him. It wasn’t open to discussion, it was off the
[01:30:42] Cameron: table.
[01:30:44] Tony: I mean, I know you’ve done a, a long history podcast on Napoleon, but it’s very Napoleonic. This Putin’s saying, I have tried to defend my border, to defend my country, to keep my people safe, but you keep attacking. I’ve signed Minsk one and Minsk II, and for 10 years we’ve had clashes on the border. Still after I withdrew, what more do I have to do?
[01:31:07] Tony: How, how, how can you say I’m the aggressor if I then, you know, cross the border with my tanks trying to
[01:31:14] Tony: protect my border.
[01:31:15] Cameron: That’s the thing that infuriates me with David Markham. I mean, if you talk about why Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812, David will give you all the arguments where he tried. He tried diplomatic measures to avoid war. But he realized, ’cause he was no dummy, what was going on. They were building up forces on his border and war was coming.
[01:31:38] Cameron: So rather than the war happened on his territory, he took it to their territory. And it’s, uh, you know, you you would say that that’s a, a just action. I mean, war is bad, but when you, when your enemy is building up forces on their border and you believe that they have
[01:31:54] Cameron: malicious intent,
[01:31:56] Tony: And you’ve had 10 years of a history of a broken treaty when you’ve tried to resolve it peacefully.
[01:32:01] Cameron: and 30 years in this case of them saying, don’t put NATO, you promised you wouldn’t gonna put NATO bases on our
[01:32:07] Cameron: border. And they’re like, shut the fuck up. We’ll do whatever we want. What do you do? That’s always been my question. Do you just like politically, if he just sits there and lets it happen, he’s
[01:32:19] Cameron: not gonna survive.
[01:32:21] Tony: mm-Hmm,
[01:32:21] Cameron: Let alone, you know, for the, the EE economic and military security of the Russian people, he needs to act. I am not justifying. His invasion. I’m just saying that from his perspective, I felt like he, he really had no option. It was
[01:32:39] Tony: hmm,
[01:32:40] Cameron: We’ve tried everything else. That’s failed. Yeah. A a as Von Klausowitz said, to paraphrase, war is the extension of diplomacy by other means, right?
[01:32:51] Cameron: When diplomacy
[01:33:03] Tony: with the issue of Gershkovich when Carlson thought he’d be able to take a trophy home from Russia and have an American, uh, released and Putin was all over it straight away with all the facts.
[01:33:16] Tony: You know, we are working on this, there’s discussions going on. Uh, there might be a prisoner exchange. We have a mine. This guy, you know, who uh, who was captured by the Americans after he assassinated. Uh, uh, what was the, um,
[01:33:30] Tony: oh, I’ve forgotten the name of the place now that, anyway,
[01:33:33] Cameron: Che, wasn’t it a
[01:33:34] Tony: Chechen. Thank you. The Chechen.
[01:33:35] Tony: The Chechen Rebel. Yeah. But, but that was, to me, that was Putin
[01:33:38] Tony: just completely and just had all the facts at his fingertips. Wasn’t gonna be gotcha’d,
[01:33:44] Cameron: hmm.
[01:33:45] Tony: just laid it all out off the cuff. Brilliant.
[01:33:47] Cameron: And the thing that always gets me about, uh, I don’t know if you, did you ever watch the Oliver Stone interviews with Putin
[01:33:52] Tony: No, I haven’t.
[01:33:53] Cameron: going back a few years, but it was like four hours of interviews. Um, late 2000 and like 17, 18, something like that.
[01:34:02] Cameron: The thing that always gets me, and this is what Oliver Stone said, ’cause Oliver Stone, you know, he did the same thing with Castro. He did the same thing with Chavez in Venezuela. He, like he said, those guys are big personalities and grand pronouncements and obviously also both very intelligent, very successful leaders of their country, depending on how you wanna measure success, I guess.
[01:34:25] Cameron: And Putin is the complete opposite to those guys. The thing that always fascinates me about these Putin interviews is he’s very quietly spoken. He doesn’t rock up wearing a uniform, you know, military badges and everything. Um, you know, Castro always just wore basic greens. You know, you never saw Castro with military, um, adornments, like a Gaddafi.
[01:34:45] Cameron: He was just, you know, military greens. ’cause he said, we’re at war and I’m a soldier, so, you know, I come dressed as a soldier, but Putin is just very quietly
[01:34:55] Cameron: spoken. Very matter of fact. Very look, here are the facts. You know, I’m laying the facts before you reminds me a lot actually of Assad in Syria, if you’ve ever seen interviews with him.
[01:35:08] Cameron: Very, very similar. I I’m not gonna compare the two guys ’cause I don’t think Assad is anywhere near what Putin is in terms of, you know, intellectual power, but very, very simple. Uh, you know, in interviews, very quietly spoken. Very matter of fact. Here’s the facts we see, you know, Putin exudes this quiet intellectual.
[01:35:31] Cameron: Confidence about his position, what his facts are. He’s always very respectful too. When, like, when, when, same with Oliver Stone interviews. When Carson was saying, well, what, what happened in this conversation? What happened in this meeting with Biden or with these leaders or with the, he goes, look, it’s not my place.
[01:35:51] Cameron: It would be, it would be not right for me to talk about things that were said in private. If you wanna know what your president said, go ask your president if you wanna know what Bill Clinton said. Carson, what do you think happened with Bill Clinton? He goes, it wouldn’t be right for me to, you know, speculate.
[01:36:06] Cameron: Go talk to Bill Clinton. Like, he’s always, he’s not advancing conspiracy theories. He is not advancing agendas. He’s just like, it’s not for me to say I, I, I know what I know, but you know, it, it’s the depiction of him in the western media is this bond villain. Doesn’t come across to me in these interviews.
[01:36:27] Cameron: Like does he have people assassinated? I don’t know. Quite possibly. Do American presidents have people assassinated? Yeah, absolutely. All the time. Does he arrest journalists? Sure. As Julian Assange in prison because of the us Sure. I mean, he does what he does and they talk about that like, as a Christian leader, you have to kill people.
[01:36:46] Cameron: Like how do you, how do you justify that? Right.
[01:36:51] Cameron: Um.
[01:36:53] Tony: I think you’ve raised the last point I wanted to talk about, and that was the timing of the interview. And, and I, I, I’ve, I don’t want to sound, uh, like any sort of Putin apologist for a minute. Um, apart from saying that he’s a smart guy and he doesn’t get a fair shot in the media, but what did you make of the Novelli.
[01:37:12] Tony: Uh,
[01:37:12] Tony: death, uh, around the soon after this interview was put to air, it was the interview, the bright shiny object to distract from something going
[01:37:20] Tony: on.
[01:37:23] Cameron: Look, um, well first of all, I’m not convinced that, you know, there’s any evidence that they like deliberately assassinated him. People die all the time. People die in prisons all the time.
[01:37:36] Cameron: Um.
[01:37:37] Tony: Especially in subzero Arctic
[01:37:40] Cameron: Sure,
[01:37:41] Tony: concentration camps.
[01:37:42] Cameron: but reports are that like the day or a couple of days before Navalny died, he appeared in court and he seemed to be healthy and un unlike
[01:37:49] Cameron: Julian Assange, who apparently is too sick to appear in
[01:37:52] Cameron: court. Um, but you know, again, I I, I don’t think Putin would try and time anything like this because I don’t think he really gives a rat’s ass.
[01:38:05] Cameron: I don’t think he cares what the Western media says. I don’t think he cares what western governments say. I think he’s a, like, bit like MBF in Saudi. Arabia having Khashoggi hacked to death with a, an axe in a bathtub. He doesn’t care. Like say what you want. I mean, you think I’m a bad guy, okay. I killed one of my enemies.
[01:38:24] Cameron: Who cares? What are you gonna do? Not buy my oil, like shut the fuck up. I don’t care. I think, I don’t think Putin really cares about bright, shiny objects. I don’t think he cares what the Americans think. I don’t, I do think he wants to. Finish the war in Ukraine. And in order to do that, he needs the US and the EU to stop funneling weapons into Ukraine.
[01:38:46] Cameron: I don’t think he wants a war there. Uh, um, whether or not the Navalny thing was timed with the upcoming Russian election and the interview, look, I, I don’t, I, I don’t think it matters. I don’t, I don’t think Navalny was gonna cause any problems in the Russian election. I’m pretty sure Putin’s got that stitched up by means, fair or foul.
[01:39:08] Cameron: I, you know, he is extremely popular. That’s the other thing the media never talk about here. All of the, all of the surveys that get done by credible western, uh, polling organizations say that he’s incredibly popular in Russia. Maybe because he gets all the pro-Russian propaganda from the media. Or maybe just because, you know, look at Russia before him under Yeltsin.
[01:39:33] Cameron: It was a basket case. Whatever else you wanna say about him. Like Hitler taking over Germany. He’s made the country stronger. He’s made the country in many ways, more economically viable, stronger, better standard of living. Is it perfect? No, but as he talks about in the, in the, the Oliver Stone interviews, it was a basket case when he took over 20 years ago.
[01:39:58] Cameron: It takes a long time to re, you know, not just rebuilding from the Soviet era, but then rebuilding from when the Americans went in, uh, under Yeltsin. Clinton sent his American strategists in and they just sold everything off to the oligarchs. You know, Putin’s been trying to. You know, rebuild the country and it takes time.
[01:40:20] Cameron: It’s a hard, it’s a hard slog, particularly when you’re facing all the other things that they’re facing with Western imperialism and all that kind of stuff in their region. So, no, I, I look, I, I dunno whether or not he was behind Navalny’s death. I, I dunno. Uh, you know, and, and every time anyone dies, Putin apparently personally signed the order.
[01:40:40] Cameron: I don’t know that that necessarily needs to be the case. There’s probably a lot of people between Putin and the guy that, um, you know, commits the act that, that are making de decisions for themselves. I don’t think the president of the United States personally authorizes everybody that every CIA operative Assassinates know.
[01:41:03] Cameron: I don’t know. What
[01:41:03] Cameron: do you think?
[01:41:05] Tony: No, I, I was just raising the question. I, I, if my personal opinion is, I think Nevali just died of, of, I’ll call it natural causes, and he’s in a subarctic, what’s it called? The polar bear or something facility, um, which is basically a death camp. And it just happened to coincide. But I guess that raises the, um, you know, the other issue for me is that it was a Western pile on, again, when Nevali died, that it was caused by Putin.
[01:41:32] Tony: Um, that, you know, see, he may have said some smart things during the interview, but this is what he’s really all
[01:41:37] Tony: about. This is what he does. So it’s, um, and I, and you know, I don’t for a minute think that if Putin didn’t do it, that he’s capable of doing it.
[01:41:45] Cameron: Sure.
[01:41:46] Tony: Yeah,
[01:41:46] Cameron: He’s ex-KGB and he is the leader of a country, like he’s capable of doing anything that he thinks is in the best
[01:41:52] Cameron: interest of his country. I’m sure.
[01:41:54] Tony: Yeah. But also it raises for me the bigger question of, um, of methods of government.
[01:41:58] Tony: And, and that could be behind some of the, you know, the slants of the media is like, you know, do, do, do. I do, I think do, do I think that Western democracy is the best form of government? Well, you just have to look at all the leaders we’ve had in the last 15, 20 years, or is a benevolent dictator
[01:42:16] Tony: a better form of government,
[01:42:18] Tony: um, even though that there are downsides to that if you are in, in opposition.
[01:42:22] Tony: Um, so I think that’s an interesting
[01:42:23] Tony: question to, to talk about as well.
[01:42:26] Cameron: The irony there is that the West loves Lee Kuan. Yew the West couldn’t get enough of Lee Kuan Yew and he was a benevolent dictator, as you say. And their system of government was very much like the Chinese system of government and who, you know, if you believe the books that I’ve been reading basically studied s Singapore’s form of government under Lee, Kuan, Yew and said, yeah, we want, we wanna have that, you know, we wanna be like that.
[01:42:53] Cameron: Let’s, let’s find the best and the brightest and give them positions of political power rather than just somebody who’s able to man manipulate the electorate to vote for them. That doesn’t make any sense.
[01:43:04] Cameron: Let’s find the best and the brightest.
[01:43:05] Tony: Yeah, well the best of the brightest do run power in the West. It’s just that they do it to line their pockets. It’s
[01:43:11] Tony: a little bit different.
[01:43:12] Cameron: You think Trump is
[01:43:13] Cameron: the best and the brightest
[01:43:15] Tony: No, I think Trump’s the mouthpiece. He’s the Ronald. Reagan.
[01:43:18] Cameron: Oh yeah. Right. Yeah.
[01:43:19] Tony: The best of the brightest are on Wall
[01:43:21] Cameron: Steve Bannon. Oh, wall Street. Okay.
[01:43:24] Cameron: All right. Well, that’s all I got. TK. Thanks for joining me. That was a good
[01:43:27] Cameron: chat.
[01:43:28] Tony: discussion. Yeah, thank you,
[01:43:30] Cameron: than we normally get to talk about these things at
[01:43:32] Cameron: the end of QAV.
[01:43:34] Tony: It is. Yeah. This could be the first of our after hours
[01:43:37] Cameron: Could be.
[01:43:38] Tony: podcast.
[01:43:39] Cameron: All right. Thank
[01:43:40] Cameron: you. TK. Cheers.
[01:43:42] Tony: Bye.

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We start our journey by exploring the history of martial arts in China, the creation of the Shaolin Temple, and the role played by the Indian monk Bodhidharma in introducing Chan Buddhism, kung fu and tea to China.

TranscriptKungfused #1

[00:00:00] Cameron: Okay, are you ready? I’m ready.

[00:00:07] Cameron: KungFused. That’s what we are

[00:00:12] Chrissy: almost all the time.

[00:00:14] Cameron: KungFused about? Yes. Kung fu. Uh, my name’s Cameron.

[00:00:19] Chrissy: My name’s Chrissy

[00:00:21] Cameron: and our son is called Fox and he actually came up with that word. I dunno, some, something like sometime in the last year, um, all three of us are kung fu practitioners, wing Chung, kung Fu, and we were driving home Fox’s nine, um, might have been eight at this point, I can’t remember.

[00:00:43] Cameron: But we were driving home from Kung fu one day and he said, I wasn’t sure about something he was doing, and he said, I’m so KungFused. And we just thought that was hilarious. So we thought that was a good name for the podcast. So, uh, let’s talk about what this podcast series is going to be about, uh, or what it’s not gonna be about.

[00:01:06] Cameron: Let’s start with that. Okay. It’s not gonna be about Kung Fu techniques. Nope. Uh, because we dunno shit.

[00:01:21] Chrissy: The more we learn, the more we learn that we don’t know, so the less we

[00:01:25] Cameron: know. Yeah, yeah. Um, so Chrissy and I are very passionate students of Kung Fu, so is Fox. Uh, but we are not masters. We’re not even really good students.

[00:01:41] Chrissy: We try, we, we try, our best. People around us seem to think we’re a little bit crazed.

[00:01:47] Chrissy: Crazed.

[00:01:48] Cameron: Yeah. Yes. We are

[00:01:50] Chrissy: crazy people around us in our lives, but, um, yeah, I

[00:01:53] Cameron: mean, we’re obsessed with Kung. Fu. Yeah. We’ve been doing it, you and I, about coming up to three years. Fox, uh, coming up to two years. I, I did karate, Shotokan karate, uh, as a teenager for quite a few years and loved it. Reached a fairly high level, uh, then took a break only because I sort of moved interstate and never got around to getting back into it.

[00:02:21] Cameron: Did do some Wing Chung when I lived in Melbourne about 20 years ago, 18, 19 years ago for a while, but then I moved and didn’t get back into it. Always wanted to always loved martial arts since my dad took me to see Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris movies at the Drive-in growing up. Um, always been a, always been fascinated with, with martial arts and always wanted to get back into it.

[00:02:49] Cameron: And it was only a couple of years ago that we finally stumbled into doing martial arts together as a family. Um, but what I have been doing for nearly 20 years as history podcasts on all sorts of topics, ancient history, contemporary, 20th century history, um, I did podcasts on investing and I don’t know other things.

[00:03:12] Cameron: ai. So doing a podcast about the history of kung fu seems like a natural thing for me to do because I wanna know about the history. I know the high level stuff that we all know. We all know something, something Shaolin, but that’s about it. And I wanna know more about. How Kung Fu developed at Shaolin, why it developed at Shaolin and all the different styles and lineages that came out of it, and why, and when and where, et cetera, et cetera.

[00:03:46] Cameron: What about you?

[00:03:48] Chrissy: Why? Why did I, why am I doing Kung Fu? Why are you

[00:03:53] Cameron: doing a podcast about Kung Fu? Well, by the way, I should point out that I’ve been doing podcasts for nearly 20 years. You and I have been together for nearly 15 years. This is the first time that we’ve ever tried to do a podcast together.

[00:04:08] Cameron: Yeah.

[00:04:08] Chrissy: Well, yeah. Yeah.

[00:04:10] Cameron: And normally when I try and talk about anything history related. You can focus for about 10 seconds, and then you try and stab me in the throat. Um, and your eyes roll up in the back of your head. You start frothing at the mouth and sh and shaking like you’ve been, you either having an epileptic fit or you’ve been possessed by Beelzebub or something.

[00:04:30] Cameron: Is that what’s happening to me? Could be. Yeah. Or you think I’m possessed by Beelzebub and you need to exercise the demon by stabbing me. I

[00:04:39] Chrissy: think those thought, yeah. It was along the, that thought line maybe in the first year we were together.

[00:04:47] Chrissy: No. Um,

[00:04:52] Chrissy: yeah. I I mean we talk about kung fu so much already. Yeah. Um, and I think that we’re at the point in our training where we, I, I we’re, we’re kind of at a point in our training where at a bit of a ceiling, wouldn’t you say a Feeling? Yeah. And God, I hope

[00:05:15] Cameron: not. If this is as good as I’m ever gonna get. No,

[00:05:20] Chrissy: no, no, no, no.

[00:05:21] Chrissy: It’s like this is a skyscraper. Oh. We’re like,

[00:05:25] Cameron: we’re on the fir, we’re on the ceiling of the first floor. Yeah. And there’s a hundred stories. Yeah, I see what you mean. Yeah.

[00:05:31] Chrissy: Um, just for our path that have been set out for us by our seafoods and just like, I feel it, um, uh, and I just feel like we’re already talking about it so much.

[00:05:45] Chrissy: I’m very curious about it. Um, why not do a podcast and you and I, Yeah. We, I mean, we could honestly record some of our conversations and it would be entertaining. Well, that’s pretty much what, just about Kung Fu and why not learn and kind of, I feel like learning more about it and further deepening our knowledge about it.

[00:06:12] Chrissy: Might help us with our training and might help us with our mindset and might help us. Um, it might help me focus more, as you already like, explained. I don’t choose what I focus, what my brain

[00:06:30] Cameron: focuses on. Well, and I think part of it for me is I like going deep in stuff. Um, which is why I started podcasting in the first place.

[00:06:38] Cameron: ’cause I was reading books on stuff and I thought, well, I might as well talk about it. But you and I have already talked about the fact we’re gonna, we’re gonna do kung fu for the rest of our lives if our bodies allow us to. Yeah. You know, and for, for all of the health benefits that we get from it, not just.

[00:06:57] Cameron: Physical, but, uh, emotional, psychological, uh, the community, the friendships. Mm. Um, everything. It’s just been many levels of positive and, and for Fox as well. Mm-Hmm. And, and all of the benefits that he gets out of it in those areas as well. So it’s something we’re gonna do for decades. Mm-Hmm. We might as well learn as much as we can about it and the history of it and the philosophy of it and, Mm-Hmm.

[00:07:27] Cameron: And as I’ve already learned through preparing for this week’s episode, there’s a lot of overlaps between the philosophy of, uh, from where Kung Fu came from and our personal philosophies anyway, that we’ve been living by for, in my case, 30 odd years. Your case since you met me, uh, you know, 15 years ago.

[00:07:47] Cameron: Mm-Hmm. Um, yeah.

[00:07:50] Chrissy: I was gonna ask though, were you asking also why I wanna do Kung Fu? Well, or why am I into it? Is that

[00:07:57] Cameron: that’s coming up? Yes. Okay. Okay. Um, I was just gonna say that one of the things that I’ve learnt in preparing for this episode, I read, um, a couple of books on the history of Shaolin Temple.

[00:08:11] Cameron: Everyone of course associates, Kung Fu with Shaolin Temple. Neither of us have been to Shaolin Temple, but my mother was there a couple of months ago. Yeah. She was weirdly zero interest in Kung Fu, but happened to be on a tour of China with a friend of hers and spend a day at Shaolin and now just

[00:08:27] Chrissy: sends us random reels on Facebook and

[00:08:33] Cameron: Yeah.

[00:08:34] Cameron: Um, but hopefully, uh, as we progress with the series, we’ll get experts on different styles and the history and philosophy to come on, but. I’ve talked about my history with martial arts. It’s been something I’ve been obsessed with since I was a kid in one way, shape or form. Either practicing it or watching martial arts movies.

[00:08:57] Cameron: Um, what about your relationship with martial arts? Where did that start?

[00:09:04] Chrissy: Well, well it started in 1980 with Karate Kid,

[00:09:10] Cameron: 1984, but Okay.

[00:09:11] Chrissy: 1984. Yeah. In the eighties. 1980s.

[00:09:13] Cameron: How old were you in, is what I meant? How old were you in 1984? I was five.

[00:09:21] Chrissy: Right. Um, yeah, like I saw it and, you know, I grew up in small town Utah.

[00:09:28] Chrissy: Um, and there was, I’d never seen anything like it, of course, but it was just like, whoa. And it was the coolest thing too. And I was, you know, I was into it and I kind of like dreamt of. Um, doing something like that, like allowed myself to have a daydream about it, I guess. Um, but I think in general I really enjoy physicality and I really enjoy kind of powerful sort of dynamic physicality.

[00:10:01] Chrissy: Um, so I always was doing gymnastics. Um, like I think maybe just a bit of lessons, but mainly just teaching myself, my sister and I, and doing lots of stuff like that with my body. Um,

[00:10:23] Chrissy: did lots of mountain climbing and stuff. Here. I don’t have the opportunity to do that kind of stuff, so I don’t know. It, it’s when you, when we when you said, I want to do Wing, Chun, Kung, Fu, and I was do, I was like. Yeah, I’ll try. I’ll try it. Yeah, for sure. Like, I don’t know, it was just a thing and then suddenly I realized that yeah, this is what I’m meant to be doing.

[00:10:48] Chrissy: It’s the exact way. It’s all the things about it is what I love. Yeah. You know, I just love moving my body. I love the flexibility. I love the powerful dynamic. I love, I love it all. And, and the soft dynamic and all of it.

[00:11:04] Cameron: You’ve always been sort of into running and the gym and, but never, you’ve never done any martial arts before?

[00:11:10] Cameron: We started Kung fu a couple of years ago. No, but

[00:11:13] Chrissy: I’ve been active my whole adult life. Yeah. Like doing lots of different stuff. Just, um, not a martial art. And I lived in Seattle for nine years. Like I should have become more curious about Bruce Lee while I was there. And I just, it, and Jimmy, it wasn’t really on my radar.

[00:11:33] Chrissy: Yeah. I was like in Bill Gates, I was in the Jeff Bezos School of Music Building and yeah,

[00:11:40] Cameron: UDub, just like you went to the same university as Bruce Lee, which we’ll talk about. So we go forward. Yeah, that’s true. So, um, yeah, martial arts is relatively new for you as a thing to do, but you became quickly obsessed with it.

[00:11:54] Chrissy: Yeah, even though I didn’t know how to, um, make a fist when I first went in for, for a while, I was still making a fist with my thumb on the

[00:12:04] Cameron: side. And we should say that I, I’m 53. You, you just turned 45 Mm-Hmm. So you were in your early forties when we started. I’d just turned 50 I think, when we started, um, or was about to turn 51 or the other.

[00:12:16] Cameron: Can’t remember. But, um, so we, we are like late in life. Students. Yeah. We’re not in our twenties. This is something that we are starting middle-aged. Mm-Hmm. And, um, it’s hard to start anything in middle-aged, let alone something that is as hard as learning Kung Fu is. Mm. But um, as I said at the beginning, we are totally obsessed with it and we love it.

[00:12:42] Cameron: We go, we train four or five times a week, sometimes for a couple of hours. Uh, we go to the Quune for a couple of hours. We are walking around the house, practicing our balancing and our stretching and our kicking and our everything. We’re just Yeah. Totally hooked and obsessed.

[00:13:00] Chrissy: You say it’s hard and it, yeah, it’s true.

[00:13:03] Chrissy: But like, what else are we gonna be doing with

[00:13:06] Cameron: our lives? Well, that’s, yeah, that’s right. Getting old and stiff

[00:13:10] Chrissy: and, well, I want to be doing something hard. Yes. I want to have a challenge That’s. Part of the allure for me, like it is challenging and that lights me up, you know?

[00:13:20] Cameron: And it’s not just physically challenging, it’s mentally challenging.

[00:13:24] Cameron: Yes. And you’re forced to think really hard about what you’re doing. And there’s a huge learning curve constantly. Mm-Hmm. A huge learning curve. And it’s just like, I’ve never really liked exercise. I’ve done it on and off. Never really liked it, did it because I knew I had to do

[00:13:40] Chrissy: something. You’ve always looked at it as like this huge chore.

[00:13:46] Chrissy: There was a never been joy No. In it for you ever. And I never

[00:13:49] Cameron: understood that you would, you know, people would talk about getting an endorphin hit when they went for a run or went to the gym. I never got that as an adult. I probably did when I did karate as a, as a kid. And I was

[00:14:00] Chrissy: doing, I was lifting weights and doing gym classes all throughout my pregnancy even.

[00:14:05] Chrissy: Yeah. Up until the day before Fox was born,

[00:14:08] Cameron: I think. But. I totally get it now. Yeah. Like I come out of every Kung Fu class, sore, tired, but ill and feeling terrific. Yeah. Elated, you know? Yes. Elated. Like, yes. Uh, you know, even if I felt like I sucked and I couldn’t do anything. Right. And, and, you know, I couldn’t process anything the Sifu was saying.

[00:14:33] Cameron: I still come out of it going, that was the greatest. Like, it’s just a huge bump if it’s early in the, sometimes we go to morning classes, sometimes it’s night classes, but either way we come out of it. Just pumped. That’s true. Exhausted but pumped. So anyway, um, I was gonna say, it could easily

[00:14:50] Chrissy: turn into an hour of us talk, talking just about this, and look

[00:14:53] Cameron: over the course of, uh, the course of the show.

[00:14:55] Cameron: We will probably talk about lots of different things about us and our lives and other things that we’re passionate about. But let’s start with Kung. Fu and see where it goes.

[00:15:05] Chrissy: Raven. Yeah.

[00:15:07] Cameron: So the history. Of Kung. Fu obviously needs to be a history of the Shaolin Temple, even though as I’ve learned Kung Fu or Wushu, or there’s a lot of different names for, it didn’t start in Shaolin.

[00:15:24] Cameron: It was quite common throughout China being studied in monasteries and other places for thousand years, 1500 years maybe before the Shaolin Temple was ever built. And one of the questions I had is, well, when we associate, when we think about martial arts today, we tend to think about Kung Fu or derivatives of Kung Fu.

[00:15:52] Cameron: Karate, judo, you know, jiu-jitsu, TaeKwonDo, et cetera. Eagle Fang. Eagle Fang. Yeah. Um, sorry. Yes, we’re huge Cobra Kai fans obviously. Um, I, I, you know, you were six when Karate Kid came out. I was 14 and doing, had been doing karate for four years and was kind of a little bit pissed A, that I wasn’t the kid doing karate, that I wasn’t the karate kid and B, that it was very obvious that the kid who was playing Daniel San.

[00:16:31] Cameron: Had no idea what he was doing. Like I’d been, you know, PR training for four years and he was just getting up there and waving his hands around. And, uh, that kind of, and not only him but Pat Merida, Mr. Miyagi had no idea what he was doing either. Uh, it was kind of annoying. Johnny Lawrence did though.

[00:16:51] Cameron: Johnny Lawrence had trained, I believe. Cool. Whatever the actor’s name is. I can’t remember. Anyway, enough about my ego blows as a teenager.

[00:17:01] Chrissy: Um, also it is one other, um, piece of evidence that we’re in my simulation. Yes. You were the karate kid. Yes. At that. Like, I was like, yes,

[00:17:13] Cameron: Chrissy saw Crocodile Dundee and ended up marrying an Australian and moving to Australia.

[00:17:17] Chrissy: No, but obsessed with that movie. Obsessed with Karate Kid is now doing Man from Snowy River. Yeah. Like what? Okay.

[00:17:25] Cameron: And what was the other one? Um, PeeWee’s. Big Adventure. Yeah. We, our son is a bit peewee.

[00:17:32] Chrissy: Yes, we did give birth to a peewee

[00:17:34] Cameron: adjacent. You, you’re basically child. We’re convinced. I’m living in Chrissy’s simulation.

[00:17:39] Cameron: Um, so the history of Chinese martial arts I read up on, um, as I said predates Shaolin by many, many centuries. There’s a document called the Shi Ji, or the records of the grand historian, written by a guy called Shma Qian who lived from 1 45 to 90 BCE. And he wrote a history of basically China going back thousands or more years.

[00:18:12] Cameron: His, he came from a, a family of imperial historians, like his father, his grandfather were imperial historians. So they had access to all of these imperial records. And he, he traveled around and met people and interviewed people to pull together these stories. And he’s considered quite, uh, a skeptical, uh, scientific kind of historian, which didn’t exist in the west really for another 1500 years after him.

[00:18:40] Cameron: But he talked about in the records of the grand historian, the presence of martial arts back some like a thousand BCE in China in different forms. So it had been around, uh, a very long time, something that Chinese had been practicing since, you know, the foundation of China pretty much. Um, and this book that he wrote, the records is astounding.

[00:19:08] Cameron: It’s, uh, four times longer than the history of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides and longer than the Old Testament. So it’s an incredible book, which I’d never even heard of before. Right. As I, I’ve been doing a lot of shows about China recently for some of my other podcasts, and getting a increasing appreciation for how old China is and how much China had done while the Greeks were still, you know, throwing rocks at each other.

[00:19:39] Cameron: Mm-Hmm. China had built, you know, ma mammoth empires and had thought about a lot of stuff. We, writing

[00:19:45] Chrissy: stuff, we don’t learn lot about that and we don’t learn a lot about, like you were saying the other day. Um. You know, things happening in Islamic

[00:19:55] Cameron: countries and Yeah. Yeah. One of my series we’re doing, uh, the Islamic Golden Age and, you know, the 800 CE, the stuff that these Islamic scholars were coming up with was astounding.

[00:20:06] Cameron: Yeah. And Leonardo da Vinci, guys like that, that lived 800 years later, seven, 800 years later, were building on the work that these Islamic scholars had done. Anyway, people

[00:20:16] Chrissy: learning about it are history

[00:20:17] Cameron: nerds like you Yeah. Just nerds. Mm-Hmm. Um, and look, and talking about martial arts, like boxing was around an ancient Greece.

[00:20:27] Cameron: Uh, the, the, the classic Indian Sanskrit epics, like the Mahabharata talk about fighting styles, hand-to-hand fighting styles that existed in India. Um, the ancient Parthians, the, the, the, the predecessor to the Persians had a, a style of grappling known as Kosh Tea, which people are still practicing apparently in Iran.

[00:20:51] Cameron: Hmm. But when, as I said before, when we think martial arts today, I think most of us in the West think Asian martial arts. And I wonder how much of that has to do with Bruce Lee.

[00:21:03] Chrissy: Oh yeah. I think everything has to do with Bruce Lee.

[00:21:07] Cameron: It all goes back. I mean, there were Kung Fu movies before Bruce. Uh, but you know, I think Bruce just had such a huge impact.

[00:21:18] Cameron: Mm-Hmm. On cinema and television in the West and our association with martial arts, it’s pretty much all goes back to his influence. Um, that’s my working hypothesis anyway, why we think martial arts equals, um, Asian martial arts and not these others. And, and you know, the proliferation of martial arts in the west.

[00:21:44] Cameron: Obviously because of Bruce and Jackie Chan and, and people like that who came after ’cause of

[00:21:50] Chrissy: Hollywood. It’s the first time I saw anything like that. Yeah. As this kid who grew up in, you know, white rural Utah

[00:21:58] Cameron: was Karate kid. Yeah. Before you saw a Bruce Lee movie.

[00:22:02] Chrissy: I think that my brothers had, they watched like Kung Fu, I

[00:22:07] Cameron: think David Carradine the

[00:22:10] Chrissy: TV show.

[00:22:10] Chrissy: Yeah. Yeah. I was really little though, and I don’t think that I was really paying attention when that was happening, but Yeah.

[00:22:18] Cameron: Well, and that was ripped off of Bruce Lee too. Bruce, um, pitched a TV show like that to the networks in the US and they said they weren’t interested and then came out with the exact same story.

[00:22:34] Cameron: But with David Carradine a white man in the role instead of Bruce. Before Bruce was famous. I think he, that, that happened probably around about the time he was doing the green Hornet. Anyway, so let’s talk about the Shaolin Monastery for a bit. Um, built in 4 95 ce, it’s a long time ago. Um, you know, at the same time Rome had fallen, Rome was sort of, uh, not in a good place.

[00:23:09] Cameron: Um, there wasn’t much going on in Europe in 4 95 ce. It was the, the beginning of the dark ages, but. Shaolin was built near a city which still exists today, called Luoyang in China, which at the time was one of the biggest cities in the world. Had about half a million people living in it, around four ninety-five, which would’ve been more, I think that was in Rome at that stage.

[00:23:34] Cameron: ’cause Rome had had collapsed and the, the, um, emperor had moved the primary residence down to Constantinople. And, you know, the, the Western Roman Empire was sort of in chaos. Shaolin Temple was built at the foot of a mountain called Songshan, which is in Dongfeng County, Henan Province, Northern China, along the Southern Bank of the Yellow River.

[00:24:02] Cameron: And, uh, it was, it, it was sort of, had been famous for a long time in China. It’s known as the Central Mountain of the five great mountains of China. And as far back as the first millennium BCE. Chinese, uh, mythology had positioned it as the center of heaven and earth, bit like, uh, it’s probably Missouri for Mormons.

[00:24:29] Cameron: Yeah. Yes. Or um, it’s where probably monkey was born. Oh, okay. Um, and so this Buddhist temple was built in 4 95, 4 96 ce and it was named for the peak that was next to it, Mount Shaoxi. So it was called Shaolin, which I believe is the forest of Shao Mountain is where it was built. So like in the bottom of the mountain.

[00:24:58] Cameron: Luoyang, by the way, had, was built around, uh, 700 BCE. There were earlier cities there, but the, what became the city of Luoyang had been around for, uh, know, 1200 years when Shaolin Temple was bought. Just, uh, built just outside of it. But then we have to talk about the history of Buddha and Buddhism. How much do you know about the history of Buddhism White girl from Utah?

[00:25:25] Chrissy: Yeah. That, not like as much as you would think.

[00:25:30] Cameron: Do you wanna take a guess When Buddha lived? No. Wow. Following in the tradition of my co-hosts,

[00:25:42] Chrissy: you told me I didn’t

[00:25:43] Cameron: have to prepare. No, I said, you just need to giggle a lot. So, Buddha Siddhartha, Gautama traditionally is said to have lived between the sixth and fifth centuries.

[00:25:56] Cameron: B.C.E born in Nepal, so basically India at the time. Um, and most scholars think he lived probably between five-sixty-three B.C.E, and 4 63, 4 83 BCE, you know, as you would expect, not a lot of real historical evidence for Buddha, but that’s, you know, the, what the, the basic assumption is. So he’d been dead for a thousand years before the Shaolin temple was built.

[00:26:30] Cameron: Buddhism had been around for a thousand years, but Buddhism was an Indian thing. How did it end up in China? Well. It started to trickle across. So the, the Silk Road, which was sort of the, you know much about the Silk Road. Yeah. The Trading Highway. Basically. Trading highway. Exactly. So there’s a lot of idea sharing that was going on, uh, between India and China during sort of the first century CE.

[00:27:02] Cameron: And it believed they, they believe that Buddhism sort of made its way from India to China. Around about, then there’s some early translations of Buddhist texts into Chinese around about the second century CE. And it, it sort of started to make its way into China. Slowly, China’s traditional religions were Confucianism and Taoism.

[00:27:26] Cameron: Buddhism slowly started to build up a following in there, and I. By around about the two hundreds CE, it started to develop a bit of a presence, but it was really sort of in the five hundreds and six hundreds that it really became quite strong and started to get a lot of imperial recognition. But it was, um, there, there’s this thing in 5 47, a history of the temples around Loy was written by a guy called Yang, and he mentions that the golden wind chimes that hung along one part, particular temple’s, eaves could be heard for three miles, and the spire of the temple’s pagoda could be seen over 30 miles away.

[00:28:12] Cameron: And then he says that there was a monk from the west named Bodhidharma, who called it the most imposing structure he’d ever seen. And I think that’s the earliest record that we have of Bodhidharma. Now, uh, I mentioned Bodhidharma to a couple of people in the last week, and they thought Bodhidharma was the Buddha different guy lived a thousand years after the Buddha.

[00:28:37] Cameron: You ever heard of Bodhidharma?

[00:28:40] Chrissy: Yes. Today when we were talking about the podcast,

[00:28:44] Cameron: before that, had you ever heard of Bodhidharma? No. I’ve known about so, and this blew my mind this week because like I’ve known about Bodhidharma since I started getting interested in Zen when I was like 12 or 13. Uh, because he’s traditionally considered the founder of Chan Buddhism, which when it went to Japan became known as Zen Buddhism.

[00:29:10] Cameron: But I never knew that he was connected to Shaolin Temple until the last couple of weeks when I started reading about the history of Shaolin, which just kind of blew my mind. So these two topics that I’ve been fascinated with my entire life. Zen Buddhism and Kung Fu, all connected Bodhidharma and the Shaolin temple.

[00:29:34] Cameron: Um, which is kind of mind-boggling, although if he actually existed, which seems to be there some evidence that he did from this history. The role that he played in either of those is really unknown. It’s mostly mythology, you know, there’s not a lot of evidence for him or what he did as you would expect.

[00:29:56] Cameron: Um, but he is known as the founder of Chan Buddhism, he’s called Bodhidharma, was his Indian name. He’s known as Dhammo in Chinese and Daruma in Japan. They think he traveled to China in around about the four seventies to seek enlightenment and to teach Buddhism. I. And eventually, you know, sort of sailed around The Indian coast got ended up in China in the four seventies, traveled around China for like 20 years and ended up at Shaolin not long after it was built.

[00:30:35] Cameron: He wasn’t the first Abbot. The first Abbot was a guy called Batuo who was, uh, teaching traditional Buddhism, um, studying the scriptures, all of that kind of stuff. And there’s a, there’s a, there’s actually a tradition that Ba was fascinated with Chinese martial arts and was picking his students based on their level of interest in martial arts.

[00:30:59] Cameron: So even the tr the, there’s like multiple traditions about how Shaolin became associated with martial arts. And one of them is that the first abbot was in martial arts. Another is that Bodhidharma introduced them to martial arts when he got there. Um, but. Bodhidharma arrives and he, he’s practicing this early form of Chan Buddhism according to tradition, which is kind of based around a Buddhist Sutra called the Lankavatara Sutra, which is all about the direct experience of enlightenment.

[00:31:39] Cameron: Now this brings us to the second topic that we’re interested in, which is Enlightenment. Yeah. Eastern Philosophy and Enlightenment. Um, I’ve been involved in that. As I said, like I, I started, I got into trouble at my high school when I was 12 or 13 ’cause we had to fill out a form for religious education and we had to write what religion we were.

[00:32:07] Cameron: And I wrote Zen Buddhist on the top of mine. This was like 1983. And did you know what that meant? I did. I’d been reading books outta the school library on Zen. Buddhism. I dunno why I think I saw a book on it and thought, oh, I’ve heard of that. I wonder what it is. Is that

[00:32:23] Chrissy: what mon like

[00:32:25] Cameron: monkey Monkey? Yeah.

[00:32:26] Cameron: Probably. It was probably because of monkey, which was huge in Australia in the early

[00:32:32] Chrissy: eighties. That was probably just that seed. Yes. Actually deep into that subconscious when you were a kid, you know?

[00:32:39] Cameron: And my entire life has been based on monkey as a result. Yeah. But anyway, so, um, your introduction to Eastern philosophy was really when you met me, I guess.

[00:32:52] Cameron: Mm-Hmm. 15 years ago. Well,

[00:32:55] Chrissy: that’s not exactly true. I mean, I, I’m not illiterate about, uh, Buddhism. I have read things throughout the years in. Knew the main tenets of, um, I think Zen Buddhism, I was familiar with that. Um, I can’t remember what it was that I read, but I read and listen to stuff all the time and Yeah.

[00:33:20] Chrissy: But I think really diving in and, um, studying, considering stretching my brain around it Yeah. Was with you.

[00:33:31] Cameron: Mm. And it’s had a big impact on both of our lives, you know? Definitely sort of, I, sort of, my introduction to it seriously was a few years, like, um, when I was, I dunno, 18 or 19, I was trying to get sober.

[00:33:49] Cameron: I’d, I’d been trying to kill myself with alcohol when I was 17, 18 ’cause I was miserable. And, uh, met a guy I. Um, Bob who’s still around, and he got me interested in philosophy. Not, didn’t call it Zen, called it sort of non-duality or Advaita, but Advaita is basically the Zen of Hinduism. Um, it’s called Chan in, in in China, Zen in Japan, and Advaita in India.

[00:34:27] Cameron: It’s got a different tradition, but you know, it’s the same sort of teaching Advaita translates as non-duality. And, and you know, pretty much, you know, I’m convinced that his intro, he’s introducing me to that at that age probably saved my life. I, I probably would’ve, uh, not lasted many years where my head was at, um, at that age.

[00:34:52] Cameron: So it’s, it’s played a huge role in my life. And

[00:34:56] Chrissy: that’s why I always say that you saved my life too because I came, I started really seriously, um, becoming curious and almost hungry for it when I was getting sober. ’cause I’ve been sober now. How many years has it

[00:35:16] Cameron: been coming up? 13 this year, I think 12 or 13.

[00:35:24] Cameron: 2012. So it’d be 12 years this year. Right?

[00:35:28] Chrissy: Yeah. Um, yeah. So that’s been part of my sober journey, I guess. Yeah. Is diving into that and it really, I think, fulfilled that spirituality. Part of the, I don’t know, the healing process that has to happen I think sometimes.

[00:35:54] Cameron: Yeah. The investigation into, I mean, asking the big questions, I guess.

[00:36:02] Cameron: Who, who am I, What am I, Why am I here? What am I supposed to do? How do I live my life? Mm-Hmm.

[00:36:10] Chrissy: Uh, you and I both should we, we can just say we’re part of AA, right? Is that something we can say?

[00:36:19] Cameron: I’m not sure I could say I am anymore. I haven’t been to a meeting 30 years, but I was, that’s how I got sober. Yeah.

[00:36:26] Cameron: Yeah. Well,

[00:36:27] Chrissy: I’m saying we were in that program.

[00:36:29] Cameron: We got sober through

[00:36:29] Chrissy: aa. Yeah. Yeah. So even getting over step one, Advaita came in to help me figure that out. Yeah. Because I am def, I was definitely not going to pretend that I believed in Christianity. Yeah. Or a God. Yeah. So, yeah, that helped me through that.

[00:36:51] Chrissy: Yeah.

[00:36:51] Cameron: Anyway. So, um, and we, I wanna talk about this in some detail because this is central to the story of Shaolin Temple. So well before it became known as the center of Kung Fu, which really didn’t happen until the 15 hundreds. For a thousand years. It was the major center, particularly in Northern China of Chan Buddhism.

[00:37:20] Cameron: And tradition says that that was introduced by Bodhidharma. So, I mean, for people that aren’t familiar with Zen or non-duality, teachings of any sort, hold on. Chrissie’s. Just gonna pour a more tea. Being Chinese Night, we have to drink tea even though it’s Indian. But Bodhidharma introduced tea to China.

[00:37:45] Cameron: We’ll get to that according to tradition later. Um. The Lanka Vatara. Sutra is really about using, uh, a direct concept of, of emptiness. Um, just using your mind to perceive the real nature of things as opposed to other forms of Buddhism, which taught certain practices or studying the scriptures living a good life, you know, the rightful path and all of that kind of stuff.

[00:38:29] Cameron: Chan, Buddhism, Zen, Buddhism and Advaita teach just a, a direct path to becoming aware of the illusory nature of things, and that is, you know what Bama. Uh, called into tradition, introduced into not just China, but into the world because he’s, I mean, he, he was basing it on the Lankavatara Sutra, but he became the, sort of the founder of the School of Buddhism, known as Chan.

[00:39:03] Cameron: Whether or not he was probably not, but that’s, you know, the, the what tradition ascribes to him. And I guess, uh, you know what, what all of these non-duality philosophies are teaching is that there’s just one thing. Not many things in my terminology, thanks. It’s just the universe. There is only one thing.

[00:39:26] Cameron: It is the universe and I, you, we are, that there’s no separation. Separation is illusion. I wrote a book about it some years ago. Um, and it’s fascinating to me that Kung Fu. It came out of Shaolin Temple, which was, had been for a thousand years, the main place, particularly in Northern China that was teaching this philosophy and what the connection is between non-duality philosophy and Kung Fu.

[00:40:06] Cameron: Like how does one influence the other and how do they work together? How does that philosophical understanding improve your practition, your practitioner, your practice? Mm-Hmm. Of Kung Fu. Right. Is what one of the things I wanna explore.

[00:40:25] Chrissy: Yeah. It’s a really interesting question. Um, go on.

[00:40:35] Cameron: Well, before I do that, talk about how non-duality has helped you in the last 10 years.

[00:40:47] Chrissy: I, I honestly feel like there could be an episode on that

[00:40:51] Cameron: and there will be probably over time, but high level. Well, like practically, how has it helped you

[00:41:00] Chrissy: practically except accepting that everything has to happen Exactly how it happens. I’m just along for the ride. Um, there’s, there’s just What does that do for you?

[00:41:17] Chrissy: It, it allows me to release the illusion of control in my life. Um, it allows me to accept reality for what it is. Um, it allows me in times that are bad to know you. Yeah, this is exactly what’s meant to be happening right now. I don’t know why it’s happening, but it’s ex, it’s supposed to be happening right now.

[00:41:51] Chrissy: I don’t know. There’s, um, it, I, I would say it just trickles into my whole mindset really. I’m less reactive usually. Um, my view of myself doesn’t have so much identity there, you know, anymore. It’s just, it, yeah, it’s all about this experience that I get to experience. So, I don’t know. I, I could talk a lot more, but, um, I guess I wasn’t prepared for sort of a nutshell answer to that.

[00:42:34] Chrissy: But yeah, I, I, I guess it helps me. With that pure, pure acceptance. And I feel like with pure acceptance, there is happiness and weirdly, a lot of freedom, which I think a lot of people don’t, are afraid of non-duality because then they think, well then I’m just trapped Mm. In this narrative and I don’t want to be in it.

[00:42:59] Chrissy: And really the opposite has been true in my experience. There’s such, such freedom you let go of so much that is just, um, bullshit. Yeah. That’s not helpful. Yeah, yeah.

[00:43:16] Cameron: Yeah. I mean, in my 30 odd years of being involved in non-duality philosophy, I believe it’s not only saved my life, but has enabled me to live.

[00:43:31] Cameron: I. With, uh, without anxiety, without fear, without guilt, without resentment, without anger, because none of those emotions really make sense. In a non-dualistic philosophy, there’s no, there’s no room for them. You don’t have to try and talk yourself out of them. There’s just no basis for them. When you accept that there is only one thing, and it’s just functioning as it has to function, and you are witnessing that as it unfolds, you can’t be angry at.

[00:44:06] Cameron: A cloud for blowing through the sky. It’s just what the cloud has to do based on what’s happening to, its, its atoms at that particular point in time. I mean, you might be angry, but you don’t get

[00:44:18] Chrissy: angry at Mother Nature No. For dumping

[00:44:21] Cameron: rain. Some people do, but it’s not a very productive exercise. Yeah. Like why?

[00:44:27] Cameron: Yeah. And when you realize that free will is an illusion and doesn’t exist and science is pretty much unified in its confirmation of that neuroscientists, etc. That when you, when you accept that free will has never existed, can’t possibly exist, uh, ’cause it sort of would break the laws of physics that actions are based on decisions.

[00:44:53] Cameron: There’s decisions of thoughts, thoughts of properties of the brain. The brain operates according to the laws of chemistry, and so every action is the result of just the laws of chemistry playing out. When you let go of the idea of free will, which I did 30 years ago, you can’t really be angry at other people for doing things because you know that they don’t have any control over what they do.

[00:45:13] Cameron: It’s just the laws of chemistry. It’s the state of their brain playing out as it is in the moment. You can’t be angry at yourself because you realize that things that you have done, uh, is exactly what had to happen, what you had to do based on the chemical state of your brain at the time. Mm-Hmm. Which you have no control over.

[00:45:30] Cameron: Mm-Hmm. Um, so guilt, anger, resentment against things that your parents have done or other people have done just disappears because it has no, it has no logical framework to reside in. It doesn’t make sense. Right. Like you said, being angry at the weather, uh, or being angry at a toddler, or being angry at a.

[00:45:54] Cameron: Cat a kitten for

[00:45:56] Chrissy: being cute. Being so cute,

[00:46:00] Cameron: you know? Yeah. Exploding my brain with cuteness,

[00:46:07] Cameron: being angry at TikTok videos of cute kittens, and you just needing to show them to me and just giggling while you do it. Oh dear. Yes. That makes no sense. Not to say that, you know, I don’t have moments of anger or anxiety, but they don’t last long because they don’t make any sense.

[00:46:28] Chrissy: Well, that’s just it.

[00:46:29] Chrissy: Like we’re still, um, we still appear to be humans living an emotional experience, actually. Um,

[00:46:41] Cameron: to varying degrees. Yeah. I still cry during Dr. Who episodes, you still

[00:46:45] Chrissy: cry like. Okay.

[00:46:50] Cameron: Bollywood films. Yes. You,

[00:46:53] Chrissy: you cry if you’re talking about anything. A little bit heroic.

[00:46:58] Cameron: Yes. That gets me, there’s a hero complex thing or a mother thing like Vincent Van Gogh dying before his art was truly appreciated.

[00:47:09] Cameron: Yeah, yeah. Gets me, yeah. Gets me in the feels. It does. And I dunno why. And you think it’s hilarious?

[00:47:19] Chrissy: It is. Because it’s a game for me now. Yes. And the game is, you can tell, I’ll be washing the dishes and you’re just talking to me and telling me a story. My brain already knows the quality of this story fits into that category of like heroic or like I know the quality of whatever.

[00:47:38] Chrissy: It could be a song. Yeah. It could. Like I just know this and then. There’s like this little tiny change in your voice. Yeah. That only I would detect. Yes. But I know it. And Fox now, and I’m like, are you

[00:47:49] Cameron: crying? Fox picks it up now too. Are you crying, dad? Yeah. Yes. No, shut up. Shut up. You’re crying. Yeah.

[00:48:01] Cameron: I’m not crying. You are

[00:48:01] Chrissy: crying. But that, that’s, you know, your philosophy spiel basically. Yes. Um, the way you understand it, the, what I’m sort of wanting to get into is what, what Chen Buddhism, how, how it’s kind of articulated, how it was understood. Hmm. Um, and how, yeah. I’m interested in the Y kung fu Mm-Hmm.

[00:48:34] Chrissy: Entwined with this philosophy. Or how the cultural aspect of that kind of seeped into it. Does

[00:48:46] Cameron: that make sense? Yeah. And, and I don’t know the answer to that yet. That’s one of the things I wanna explore by doing the research on it. And even if there is one, I mean, martial arts were being practiced right across China, as I said, from, you know, well before Bodhidharma arrived with Chan Buddhism and at various points in time with warring kingdoms going on, and, and, you know, warring, you know, um, factions, it was necessary for people to defend themselves.

[00:49:20] Cameron: And there were periods when weapons were outlawed by various emperors. Um, so they had to use hand-to-hand combat if they were going to. Protect their monastery from, you know, warring tribes or Raiders or whatever it was. And Shaolin got destroyed a couple of times, uh, uh, in different conflagrations that they were caught in the middle of.

[00:49:44] Cameron: So maybe it had nothing to do with Chan Buddhism and it was just about, um, uh, you know, the need to defend themselves. And they just happened to become really good at it. Although, you know, uh, Bruce Lee went to University of Washington to study philosophy primarily Chan and Taoism, which talk I, I’ve got some quotes from Bruce coming up.

[00:50:10] Cameron: Um, so even if the development of Kung Fu at Shaolin had nothing to do with Chan Buddhism, and that was just a coincidence. The question then is, does, uh, an understanding of non-duality help a pro, a practitioner of Kung Fu. Bruce, certainly thought so. I

[00:50:32] Chrissy: think so.

[00:50:35] Cameron: Bodhidharma, there’s a, there’s a number of traditions around Kung, Fu, and Bodhidharma.

[00:50:42] Cameron: One is the, there, there’s a 17th century story found in a manual called the Yi Jin Jing, which is a series of exercises, um, breathing exercises, stretching exercises, strengthening exercises that, um, according to tradition, Bodhidharma either introduced into Shaolin or left behind when he left Shaolin, or when he died.

[00:51:15] Cameron: There’s various versions of the story. One popular version is that when he went to Shaolin, he did, he found the monks were all sort of weak and unhealthy. So he introduced all of these strengthening exercises to them, and that became the foundation of Kung Fu. Another tradition is that he died and they found this book of stretching exercises, breathing, strengthening in his grave or amongst his uh, things.

[00:51:49] Cameron: Or another one is that he left and he left it behind and they found it in his room. And according to those traditions, it was written in Sanskrit, which none of the monks understood. And there is a story that one monk took. The book and traveled around China looking for someone to translate it. He eventually found a monk at another monastery who could translate the Sanskrit, but he said, it’s, it’s too complicated to just translate.

[00:52:20] Cameron: You need to stay here in the monastery and we will work through it together. And the monk did. And after 100 days of practicing, he became quite strong. In the next 100 days, his entire body had received the full benefit. And the third 100 days, his constitution became as hard as steel. And he felt he could be a Buddha.

[00:52:42] Cameron: He was ripped. He was, he was Shah, Rukh, Khan ripping his shirt off. Yeah. Arms stretched out. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but historians tend to doubt, uh, the story. Most modern historians seem to think that this Xi Jinping was. Composed by a Taoist priest called Xi Ning in the early 16 hundreds. Um, which is kinda surprising because it’s associated with a Buddhist monastery.

[00:53:12] Cameron: And he was a Taoist and he wrote one of the prefaces, I think, to one of the earliest known publications of this. And, and they think that even though he was attributing it to Bodhidharma that he may have actually written the whole thing himself. Um, there’s a, there was, uh, a Japanese martial arts scholar called Ryushu Matsuda who said that the earliest surviving edition of the Yixing Jing was 1827.

[00:53:41] Cameron: And in the course of his research, he couldn’t find any mention of it or of Bodhidharma before the 19th century. Bodhidharma’s association with it before the 19th century. So it seems like it may be mythology, but on the flip side, Bodhidharma came from India and these monks were not the healthiest. It’s possible that he introduced them to some form of yoga practice, stretching and breathing may have had nothing to do with, um, you know, martial arts as such, but the basis in yoga, which then suggests that maybe, you know, martial arts, as we think of it, kung fu comes from yoga practices originally.

[00:54:30] Chrissy: Don’t you remember though, we looked up yoga and what we know about yoga is like, it’s kind of new. Yeah, that’s true. Yeah, yeah. Out of like California or something. Didn’t you read that? Yeah. So like, what is that, what, what is the historical basis of that? Yeah, it’s kind, I think it’s, it’s probably pretty shaky.

[00:54:48] Chrissy: Yeah. But, um, I think that. We have to look, we have to do a fact

[00:54:53] Cameron: check on that. Yeah. The history of, okay. I’ll make that a note for the next one. What’s the history of yoga? That’ll be another series. Yoga fused, not yogurt fused. Oh, but I’m Ching because you make your own yogurt every night pretty much. I do.

[00:55:10] Cameron: And you’re not confused about that. You do a bloody good job. Thanks. Bruce Lee was a student of China, as I said, and he studied at your old university, UW, university of Washington, a little bit before you got there. Um, I was reading earlier today an edition of Black Belt Magazine from November, 1967 when they were asking the question, this guy who plays Kato in the Green Hornet TV show.

[00:55:41] Cameron: Can he really do kung-fu or is he just faking it? Uh, because no one knew who Bruce Lee was in 1967, he was on this TV show, but that was it. And so they, they, they did, uh, two editions, I think October and November. They were, did some big sort of, a lot of coverage on Bruce and they were like, oh no, he’s the real deal.

[00:56:01] Cameron: And they went and watched him train and they talked about his Jeet Kune Do schools that he was running. And, uh, they talked about Yip man and Wing Chung and all this kind of stuff. But there’s a quote from Bruce in this In-six-si-seven magazine. He said, the best illustration is something I borrowed from Chan or Zen Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just like a punch, a kick, just like a kick.

[00:56:27] Cameron: After I learned the art, a punch is no longer a punch. A kick is no longer a kick. Now that I’ve understood the art, a punch is just like a punch. A kick is just like a kick.

[00:56:40] Chrissy: How do you, what do you make out of that?

[00:56:44] Cameron: Well, um, a couple of things. So this is, uh, uh, sort of a reframing of an old Zen, uh, saying, which is before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water after enlightenment, chop wood carry water.

[00:57:01] Cameron: Mm-Hmm. And the way I’ve always understood that is, you know, when you know, okay, before enlightenment, before you study philosophy, you don’t think about it. You chop wood, you carry water. When you start. Studying philosophy, you start pulling concepts apart and constructs apart. And you start thinking, okay, well if it’s all the oneness, what is the wood and what is the water and how am I separate from the wood and the water?

[00:57:29] Cameron: And you start to sort of,

[00:57:32] Chrissy: you, you, you totally deconstruct it all.

[00:57:35] Cameron: Exactly. You have to. Yeah. That’s what, you know, the process of Zen is, or, or non-duality is all about. It’s about deconstructing the constructs, the mental constructs you have about the nature of identity and your place in the world and, and deeply thinking it through and trying to dispel yourself of the illusions that you’ve probably had since you were a child.

[00:57:58] Cameron: And then once you’ve been through that process. You’re just accepting the, the, the nature of the, the perception of reality as being the perception of reality. And so you just go back to chop wood, carry water. You’re in the moment, you’re doing what needs to be done. Mm-Hmm. You don’t have to analyze it anymore.

[00:58:19] Cameron: You don’t have to think about it. Like there’s, there’s this old zen, you know, heard of a koan, K-O-A-N.

[00:58:26] Chrissy: Yes. Because you’ve told me about it. Yeah. There’s, I was about to say there’s a word for that. Right, right. A minute ago.

[00:58:32] Cameron: Yeah. Well, it’s probably not a koan. Koans were, I think primarily a, a Japanese, um, riddle invention.

[00:58:42] Cameron: Yeah. Riddles designed to kind of break your brain and, uh, in different ways that might help lead to, uh, an enlightenment experience, break narratives. Yeah. So there was, I think one of the ones that comes to mind is there was, um. Uh, you know, two monks that were being interviewed by the Zen Master and in he said there was a, a flag waving in the wind.

[00:59:09] Cameron: He said, is that flag, uh, waving or not waving? And one, um, monk said, it’s not waving. There is no flag. There is no wind. It’s all the oneness. And the monk hit him on the head with a stick, and the other one said, uh, the flag is waving. It is in the wind. It’s all real. And he hit him on the head with a stick.

[00:59:29] Cameron: That’s the story.

[00:59:31] Chrissy: And you have to try to make sense of it somehow when it

[00:59:35] Cameron: Yeah. Yeah. And you know, my interpretation of that would be they’re both stuck in the concepts like in a classic Zen koan. The one who would get away with it would be the one that would just walk up and kick over the water bowl and walk a bowl of water and walk out the room.

[00:59:51] Cameron: Mm-Hmm. Refuses to engage in conceptual constructs. The famous story of the Buddha, um. Who he passed his, uh, um, mantle onto. He was sitting around before he died with a bunch of his disciples, and they’re asking questions. He was asking them questions about the nature of reality, and they were, they were all giving him different sort of answers.

[01:00:12] Cameron: And he gets to one disciple who just picks up a flower. And he was the guy that the Buddha passed his, um, mantle onto when he died, or the, the cloak of invisibility or whatever it was that he had Favorite student award. Yeah. Student of the month, yeah. Award. Yeah. Because he just, he cut through the bullshit.

[01:00:33] Cameron: He cut through the concepts and, you know, demonstrated that he wasn’t buying into any conceptual constructs by just picking up a flower

[01:00:41] Chrissy: and probably regurgitating language. Yes. You know, regurgitating language and Yeah.

[01:00:47] Cameron: And then in the Dao of Jeet Kune Do, which is a book I read a little while ago that.

[01:00:54] Cameron: Uh, came out after Bruce died, but it was sort of, um, based on all of his notes and his notebooks and things that he was compiling to write a book. He never got around to it before he died. He actually quotes, uh, the Xin Xin Ming, which has been a favorite of mine since Bob introduced me to it when I was 19 or 20, written by Xiong Shan, who was the third patriarch of Chan.

[01:01:22] Cameron: So Bodhidharma passed it on to Hui Ke and Hui Ke passed it on to Xiong Shan, and it’s this great sort of long. Um, prose poem about non-duality, but Bruce in the Dao of Jikendo quotes, the opening of it the perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike. All then will be clear, make a hairbreadth difference, and heaven and earth are set apart.

[01:01:54] Cameron: If you want the truth to stand clear before you never be for or against the struggle between, for and against is the mind’s worst disease.

[01:02:05] Chrissy: Mm-Hmm. So I should say that, um, I was introduced to a lot of these ideas weirdly before, way before I started Kung Fu, probably like in, I don’t know, 2000. 13 or maybe when Fox was born.

[01:02:27] Chrissy: 14. Um, but I was listening to, um, Shannon Lee’s podcast. Bruce’s daughter. Yes. What was that podcast

[01:02:35] Cameron: called? Be Like Water? No, I don’t know. I can’t remember.

[01:02:43] Chrissy: I think it was just called the Bruce Lee Podcast. Maybe could have been.

[01:02:46] Cameron: Yeah. Um, it’s like 10 years ago, 11 years ago. But I listened to

[01:02:49] Chrissy: the whole thing because I had this natural in interest in this philosophy.

[01:02:57] Chrissy: Mm-Hmm. And I loved it. And you know, I was early years sobriety at that time, just eating it up. Really curious. But, um, yeah, it’s really interesting that that little tidbit is interesting to me. Yeah. I’d boned up a little bit on this philosophy years ago before I ever even thought, huh, I should do that.

[01:03:19] Cameron: Yeah. Yeah. And when I suggested we would do Wing Chung, um, you didn’t even know about the connection between Bruce and Wing. Chung and Yip Man or any of that

[01:03:30] Chrissy: kind of stuff. Yeah. Because I don’t catalogue little facts

[01:03:35] Cameron: like you do. No, you’re not a nerd about that kind of stuff. Yeah. If it was violin, classical music, yeah.

[01:03:43] Chrissy: I can, I know my stuff. That’s

[01:03:45] Cameron: my, Chris is a violin teacher, has been her whole life. Have

[01:03:49] Chrissy: I have you, you think My whole life has been the years I’ve been with you.

[01:03:56] Cameron: You were a violin teacher before you met me. Habit. Oh yeah. Yeah. Just joking. Yes. Well, I’m in your sim you’re not in mine, so That’s right. Yeah.

[01:04:06] Cameron: It is my sim I already know about evidence about in real life, what you tell me. So Bodhidharma is the subject of many legends as well, um, along with Zen and Kung Fu. He supposedly brought tea to China. So this is a great story. This is like

[01:04:23] Chrissy: a Bollywood film. It is. He he, he, he did it all. It’s like Triple R, like come on.

[01:04:27] Chrissy: Yeah. Yeah. He started kung-fu He invented

[01:04:31] Cameron: tea. Yeah. But the story is great. So he, um, when he got to Shaolin, no one was interested in his teachings of Chan Buddhism. ’cause they, they were traditional Mahayana, Buddhism, you know, studying the scriptures, that kind of stuff. He was like, you don’t need all, you don’t need all that.

[01:04:52] Cameron: You know, you just need to get straight to the truth. So he went and found a cave nearby where he decided to sit and meditate, searching for enlightenment himself. And the, the, the story is that he sat in this cave all day, every day for years. I. And then, uh, at one point during the summer, he started to get tired and he felt his eyes drooping.

[01:05:17] Cameron: So he took a knife and cut his eyelids off so he wouldn’t sleep as you do as you do. And he threw his eyelids on the ground and where they fell, tea trees grew from them. And the monks who drank the tea from the tea trees discovered that it kept them awake when they were meditating. So that’s where, that’s how tea came to China is the story.

[01:05:44] Chrissy: That would’ve been the coolest drug

[01:05:46] Cameron: since. Yeah. What were they on? They were super high. Um, but, uh, there’s this other great story about his, uh, which is by the way, sorry. So all of the depictions you see of Bodhidharma, he’s always got big bulging eyes, partly because he was from India. Um, and partly because he didn’t have any eyelids ’cause he cut them off according to tradition.

[01:06:12] Cameron: I’m just thinking of

[01:06:13] Chrissy: Kenan Thompson right now.

[01:06:17] Cameron: Kenan Thompson eyes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh. Uh, that’d be, it’d be funny if they made a film about Bodhi Dharma and they cast Kenan Thompson. Oh, he would be so good. Yeah. Yeah. He just does the eyes. Yeah. And they’re like, that guy has no eyelids. He must have cut them off.

[01:06:35] Cameron: Passed me another cup of tea. So this other great story, uh, one that I remember reading about when I was very young is eventually, um, a young guy approached Bodhi Dharma in his cave and said he wanted to be his student. His disciple, Bodhi Dharma taught him to go away. Um, apparently this kid had a background in either traditional Buddhism or Taoism and Bodhi Dharma didn’t think he was serious enough.

[01:07:00] Cameron: So, um, according to one tradition, Bodhi Dharma said he would only take him. When the heavens turned, the snow red and so the guy cut his arm off and the blood turned the snow red. So Bodhidharma figured he was serious and took him in. Um, and then when he was bandaging up his arm said, let’s not be so fucking dramatic next time.

[01:07:31] Cameron: I see. Like

[01:07:32] Chrissy: you actually, it, it really helps to have two arms. Yeah. When you do this kung

[01:07:38] Cameron: fu, you could have just like. Sliced your palm open or something. Yeah. He goes, dude, you cut your eyelids off. Like, who are you to talk? He goes, yeah, fair point, fair point. You got me here. All right. Let’s just say from now on, no one cuts anything off.

[01:07:52] Cameron: Yeah. Can we just agree on that? No more

[01:07:54] Chrissy: cutting. But we got tea from my eyelids. So what do you have? Yeah,

[01:07:57] Cameron: what do you bring to the table? Let’s just bury the knives. That’s what I’m saying. Let’s get rid of the knives. Yeah. I don’t think we can be trusted around sharp. No sharp objects. Sharp

[01:08:06] Chrissy: implements.

[01:08:07] Chrissy: That is why it’s hand-to-hand.

[01:08:10] Cameron: Hand to hand combat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They couldn’t be trusted around sharp objects. Um, the other story about this young guy is he said to Bodhidharma, my mind is not at peace. Please pacify it for me. Bring your mind here and I’ll pacify it for you said Bodhidharma. I’ve searched for my mind.

[01:08:30] Cameron: The kid said, but I cannot find it anywhere. I have now completely pacified your mind for you said Bodhidharma. Perfect. Perfect. Yeah, that’s, that’s a good con non duality teaching in one hit, right? Mm-Hmm. If you can’t find the mind, ignore it. Yeah. You’ve, yeah. See through it or you’re crazy, or that you’ve lost your mind.

[01:08:55] Cameron: So this student, when Bodhidharma died in, um, 5 28, according to some sources, he was poisoned by a jealous monk. Uh, he passed, uh, his, his mantle as the Patriarch of Chan Buddhism onto this one armed monk, um, who became the second Patriarch of Chan Buddhism. He probably was a guy that just had one arm and somebody said to him one day, why do you only have one arm?

[01:09:29] Cameron: And he told him this story. Shit-faced drunk at the time.

[01:09:33] Chrissy: Yeah. Or like just total

[01:09:35] Cameron: bullshitting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, Hey, watch this. He said to this young guy. Yeah. So I cut my arm off and, you know, yeah. A thousand years later, people still believe the story. Yep. Um, there is, in, at Shaolin, there’s a stele, like a stone tablet thing with an inscription dated 7 28.

[01:10:00] Cameron: So about 200 years after Bodhidharma supposedly died. And it talks about Bodhidharma having lived at on the mountain. And there’s another dated 7 98 that has Huy Khe chopping his arm off. So two to 250 years after these things apparently happened, they’re being, uh, recorded at Shaolin. That’s the earliest evidence that we have of these stories.

[01:10:32] Cameron: Hmm. That’s a long time. 200, 250 years. Oh, yeah. Um, but the suggestion that these stories were at least around that Shaolin couple hundred years later, those stories are really old stories. One final story, legend has it, that after Bodhidharma’s death, uh, Chinese monk is travelling somewhere in, in middle Asia, and he meets Bodhidharma walking down the road with carrying a sandal in his hand.

[01:11:09] Cameron: No sandal on, no sandals on his feet. He’s carrying one sandal in his hand. The guy asks him where he’s going, and he says he’s returning to India. The guy rushes to Shaolin, they dig up Bodhidharma’s grave, and it’s empty except for one sandal.

[01:11:28] Chrissy: What

[01:11:37] Chrissy: I mean,

[01:11:37] Cameron: the relevance of that, I’m not quite sure. It

[01:11:42] Chrissy: really sounds like some weird Christian story that I would’ve heard growing up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it

[01:11:50] Cameron: does. It just has all that. Well, it’s a good reason for that. The stories are stories. Humans make up stories and why that story? Maybe somebody robbed his body out of the grave and that was the story they came up with to explain it.

[01:12:02] Cameron: Mm-Hmm. Wouldn’t be the first example of grave robbery in history. Him and Jesus both disappeared from their graves. Yeah. People had to make up stories to explain it. Um, but I just wanna finish by saying that some scholars think that Chan Buddhism actually was a, an example of syncretism syncretism. Is what they call it when two cultures with two religions meet and sort of start swapping spit.

[01:12:33] Cameron: Mm-Hmm. French kissing Religions or philosophies. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:12:38] Chrissy: Um, Intertwining

[01:12:40] Cameron: ideas. Yes. Um, DT Suzuki very famous, uh, Japanese, uh, Scholar of Zen Buddhism said the Chan was a natural evolution of Buddhism under Taoist conditions. ’cause it has a lot of similarities with Taoism. The other examples, uh, uh, of syncretism that I always think about is stoicism.

[01:13:06] Cameron: And Epicureanism emerged in Athens in, you know, around about 300 CE after Alexander the Great had taken his armies to India. And then they went back to Greece and sort of took a little bit of Indian philosophy, Buddhist philosophy, and merged it with Greek philosophy. And then they had Stoicism and Epicureanism and vice versa.

[01:13:32] Cameron: Cross-pollination. Cross-pollination. Yeah. Or swapping. Spit. I like better, but sure. If you wanna be dry and boring about it, you can call it that. You’re

[01:13:40] Chrissy: like French kissing. Yeah. With the tongues.

[01:13:44] Cameron: Tongues or tongs instead of Chinese reference. Yeah. Um, Bruce Lee, at the end of this 19 sixty-seven article said seven 700 million Chinese can’t all be Wong.

[01:13:56] Cameron: No, we’re talking about Kung Fu. He did not. He did. Wow. Yeah. He made a Chinese joke. Would’ve got cancelled if he did that today. Anyway, um, the, uh. Where was I going with that? Oh, cross-pollination on the, on the other side of it, before Alexander went to China, uh, sorry. Before he went to India, they never had physical depictions of Buddha, you know, little fat man, uh, Buddha statues.

[01:14:25] Cameron: They didn’t do that. Buddha was only depicted as like footprints on the sand. There was no human character of Buddha in India before the Greeks. But then the Greeks came with all their statues of Apollo and Zeus, et cetera, et cetera. And, um, the Indians went, oh yeah, right? Statues, you can book, you can do statues.

[01:14:50] Cameron: Shit. How do we not figure that out for the last 2000 years? Let’s do that. Um, and of course, uh, Christianity, uh, I think is a syncretism between, um, agricultural mystery religions, uh, that, you know, sort of came out of ancient Greece and out of Egypt. And Judaism. This is this, I think, very strong evidence that, uh, the, the, the Eucharist tradition eat this bread.

[01:15:19] Cameron: It is my body drink this wine, it is my blood. Mm-Hmm. Which according to the writings of St. Paul is a tradition that he was given. So it goes back, makes no sense from the perspective of Judaism. Makes perfect sense from the perspective of agrarian mystery cults that were very popular in the Roman Empire around about the first century CE.

[01:15:42] Cameron: ’cause when you, the cults of Dionysus of Isis and Osiris, the gods of the grain, the gods of the grape, when you eat bread, you are literally eating the body of the grain. God, uh, Isis or Osiris. When you drink wine, you are literally drinking the body of the grape God Dionysus.

[01:16:03] Chrissy: Yeah. That thread is in there.

[01:16:05] Cameron: Yeah. It seems really obvious. From an agrarian mystery, cult perspective, and it just sort of syncretized Paul or somebody before Paul Syncretized it into this Judaic, uh, thing that he was doing. And, um, boom. Shaka like a boom. Christianity. You got it. Mm-Hmm. Let’s go with a little bit of a shake. The Yi Yeah.

[01:16:28] Cameron: Cup. Yes. Double sixes. Let’s go. Yeah. All right. That is the first episode of Confused. When we come back next time, we’re gonna be more confused. Well think we even more if you weren’t confused at the start of this.

[01:16:44] Chrissy: Yeah. We

[01:16:45] Cameron: were all over the place. No, we were. There was a lovely, logical progression there.

[01:16:50] Cameron: Okay. Don’t tell me how to Oh, I came up with a term from I’m a podcast story. Oh,

[01:16:57] Chrissy: that is good.

[01:16:58] Cameron: A Pod. I think I just invented that. Cool. I’m a podcast story. What am I? The wife of a pod Castorian. Oh wow. But after we finish this series, you can, you can put that on your business card as well. Podcast story.

[01:17:14] Cameron: It’s

[01:17:14] Chrissy: so bonkers to me that A, I do can food. Oh, it’s like, who? Who’s this? What? Yeah. And then b, that I’m doing a history podcast. What?

[01:17:28] Cameron: You’ve corrupted me by getting me to put chili on everything.

[01:17:32] Chrissy: Yeah. There there’s been a cross pollination with

[01:17:34] Cameron: us too. Yeah. And a lot of spit swapping. True Speaking of

[01:17:38] Chrissy: which, it’s almost 11

[01:17:41] Cameron: P.M.

[01:17:41] Cameron: Yeah. Thanks for listening. Bye.

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Nine years ago today, Ray Harris and I started our podcast about Julius Caesar. Every month since then (that’s 108 months and roughly 400 hour long episodes in case you’re wondering), we’ve told stories about the Julio-Claudians (aka the Caesars – Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero) in insane detail. And today – it ends. We have published the last episode of Nero and that’s the end of the line for this series. We’ve officially hung up our togas.

I didn’t know Ray from a bar of soap when we started nine years ago… and I still don’t. And don’t care to. Kidding. He’s been a joy to work with over nine years and we continue to work together on our series about the Cold War, the Renaissance, and the Bullshit Filter.

This series has been the hardest I’ve ever worked on anything. It taught me a whole new way of working. For many years, I would spend all day working on my ‘real’ job, and then at night, after dinner, I would sit down with my books and make notes for several hours a night (usually from about 8pm – midnight). I’d do that five nights a week, then record the next day, take a couple of nights off, and then start the process all over again. FOR YEARS and YEARS. It was only when I could afford to shut down my day job that I could work less in the evenings and do more of it during the daytime.

Fortunately, I loved the work, and Ray and I had a ton of fun doing it. We’ve learned a lot, we’ve laughed, we’ve loved… we’ve travelled across Europe and the USA, Ray’s been to Australia with his family… it’s been a wild ride. And it consumed up nearly a fifth of my life. It’s the longest “job” I’ve ever had…. sitting in my undies, making Ray wet his pants.

Thanks to everyone who has been on the journey with us, especially to those who have supported us financially. We couldn’t have kept it going without you. And thanks to our spouses, who don’t LISTEN to the show (thank god), but allowed us to do work on it, despite it seeming like the greatest waste of time and energy for many years.

And here it is.

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On this week’s Cold War podcast – the Red Scare continues. In 1939, Martin Dies Jr claimed that the Justice Department was investigating 2,850 known communists in government and that FDR had ordered a purge of all those named. But it was all a disinformation campaign launched by Hoover. The President hadn’t ordered a purge […]

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We wrap up our antivax mini-series by looking at another antivax claim: “All vaccines contain a number of toxic poisons and chemicals that are linked to serious neurological damage”. We talk about Robert Kennedy Jr, thimerosal, and the difference between methyl vs ethyl mercury.

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This week’s podcasts include stories about enlightenment, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover, and The Son Of God (Tiberius, not that other guy).

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My guests again today are J. David Markham, my regular co-host on the much-loved Napoleon Bonaparte Podcast, and his friend of 35 years, a regular guest on this show, Doug LaFollette, the Secretary of State of Wisconsin. This week I again try to get down to basics – how do we form our political beliefs? Where do our […]

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My guests again today are J. David Markham, my regular co-host on the much-loved Napoleon Bonaparte Podcast, and his friend of 35 years, a regular guest on this show, Doug LaFollette, the Secretary of State of Wisconsin. This week I try to get down to basics – how do we form our political beliefs? Is government really about […]

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My guests today are J. David Markham, my regular co-host on the much-loved Napoleon Bonaparte Podcast, and his friend of 35 years, a regular guest on this show, Doug LaFollette, Secretary of State of Wisconsin. They joined me this morning to discuss the recent US government shutdown and the forces at play behind it. If you, […]

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PhD student Benjamin Walker and Business Psychology professor Chris Jackson conducted three experiments using more than 600 people from the general population. They found that people with psychopathic traits can make great entrepreneurs because they are not afraid to fail or make bold and risky decisions. My concern, though, is that although psychopaths might make […]

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Today I welcome back to the show Brad Heitmann (aka Brad The Mormon). This time we’re talking about Iran. FOR TWO HOURS. Fer realz.Ermahgerd. Brad travelled to Iran in 2009 around the time of their Presidential elections and the riots. He spent a couple of hours at a dinner listening to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. We discuss the […]

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My guest today is Brad Heitmann. Brad lives in Utah, has a background in investment banking and start-up strategy and loves history. Today, however, he joins me to talk about his religion – The Church Of Latter Day Saints aka Mormons. To all those people asking me for years “when are you going to a […]

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Wendy Bacon is a contributing editor to NewMatilda and has reported for Crikey,  the Sydney Morning Herald and The Conversation in recent times. She is an investigative journalist with a background in social activism who worked at the University of Technology for 21 years. Although no longer teaching at UTS, Wendy is still a Professor of Journalism at the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism. In 2011 she […]

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Today I’m chatting with Jenna Price, one of the key people behind the “DESTROY THE JOINT” movement to stop sexism and misogyny in Australia. Jenna talks about the success of their campaign to get advertisers to pull their funding from the Alan Jones Show on 2GB.   Links: Destroy The Joint on Facebook Destroy The Joint on […]

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Australia is one of only a few countries in the world that has the facilities to design and manufacture a car from digging the raw materials out of the ground to dealer domestic sale. And in the 1970s Australia’s auto industry was ranked 10th place in the World but today? We are in 28th place. […]

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If you haven’t watched THE WIRE yet – what are you waiting for? After all, it’s ten years old this year and it has been roundly acclaimed as the greatest TV show ever made. I’ve watched the entire series three times and it gets better with each viewing. Chrissy and I are constantly quoting from […]

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Neomad is a new iPad comic created by and featuring a group of energetic, talented and brilliant indigenous kids from Roebourne in Western Australia. The guy who has helped them make it a reality is Stu Campbell. On today’s show, I talk with Stu, Max & Maverick about The Love Punks, Neomad, and life in […]

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UPDATE: Josh has clarified his thoughts on his blog. Good work. My guest on NIP#51 is Josh McDonald (aka Sophistifunk), software developer in Melbourne and a former cigar buddy of mine when he lived in Brisbane. Josh’s love of guns is something I’ve known about but we’ve never delved too deeply into it. When I […]

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I wonder how many of you are, like me, feeling terrible about the indigenous affairs situation in Australia. My guest today is Justin O’Brien, Executive Officer of the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation (www.mirarr.net). The Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation (GAC) represents the Mirarr traditional owners of the Ranger uranium mine area, the site of the proposed Jabiluka uranium […]

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Rob McNealy is back on the show (see gdayworld #329 for his last appearance four years ago) and he’s talking about gun ownership. Rob is a huge believer that citizens need to have weapons to defend themselves against a tyrannical government and for self-defence. Just in time for the show, here’s a quote from a […]

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Stephen Covey, author of “The Seven Habits” books, died in a bicycling accident a couple of days ago. Covey, who was, by the way, a Mormon, wrote about living a “principle-centred life”. On today’s show I discuss what that means to me.    

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My first podcast in several months is a bit of a rant and a bit of science – a basic primer to help you understand yesterday’s announcement of the discovery at CERN of a “Higgs-like particle” and a rant on why it’s important that we all try to understand the basics of physics and the […]

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Via @mikeb476: A new international report has ranked the life circumstances of Aboriginal Australians at the “bottom rung” and warned that Aboriginal children are “23 times more likely” to face jail than non-Aboriginal children. The report also notes that federal government programs still falling short to address extreme hardship within Aboriginal communities. The London-based rights organisation, […]

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Here’s some of the stories I talk about on this week’s show: Why climate deniers are like the Catholic church The Unbreakable Smartphone That Lasts For Weeks Without Recharging What it’s like to wear a brain-stimulating “thinking cap” Vortex radio waves could boost wireless capacity infinitely Most asylum seeker rioters turned out to be refugees […]

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On this episode, I talk about socialism, Iran, quantum computing, faster-than-light neutrinos and how to make bad memories disappear forever.

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First podcast for 2012! Sorry it’s been so long between shows – this episode took me FOREVER to edit. Blame Ira Glass. Anyway… I’m fascinated with the long-term effects of colonialisation. We all know that colonialisation is usually a disaster for the indigenous population while the colonial power is occupying their country – but what […]

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Why do the Iranian people distrust the United States? Because they “hate our freedoms”, as Bush said about Al Qaida? Or do they have genuine reasons? How many of us know the history of America and England’s involvement in the illegal and covert overthrow of the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953? My guests […]

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My guest today is Nikola Danaylov (who also goes by the pseudonym Socrates), host of The Singularity 1 on 1 Podcast and SingularitySymposium.com and SingularityWEBLOG.com. He was born in Bulgaria, but moved to Toronto in 1998 where he obtained degrees in Political Science, Philosophy and Economics. About 18 months ago he started the Singularity 1 […]

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News updates from around the globe. Includes the following stories: Former Tasmanian MP found guilty of having sex with a 12 year old girl, but gets no jail time.  Time Magazine Doesn’t Want To Show U.S. Citizens Pictures Of Revolution.  U.S. Senate Are Voting On Legislation That Allows Their Military To Arrest Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime, […]

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Doug La Follette (born June 6, 1940) is an American academic, environmental activist, and politician from the state of Wisconsin. A Democrat, he is the current Secretary of State of Wisconsin and has served in that role since 1983. He is also a Fulbright Distinguished American Scholar and the author of the 1991 book The Survival Handbook: A Strategy for […]

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Short show today, covering a few stories: An Occupy Wall Street Founder Talks About The Origins Of The Movement And Where It’s Headed Next Poll: Most Americans Support Occupy Wall Street Quantum Levitation New independent climate study confirms global warming is real The killing of Awlaki’s 16-year-old son     Tell me what you think. […]

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On today’s Show: #OccupyMelbourne busted up by police, protesters arrested, all in time for next week’s visit by The Queen. My Retort to Greg Jericho’s blog post about the foolishness of Occupy protests in Australia Neuroscientist David Eagleman confirms “time is an illusion”. Steve Jobs – Why Didn’t He Get An Operation? The Bible Geek […]

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A bishop in the Roman Catholic Church has been indicted for failure to report suspected child abuse, the first time in the 25-year history of the church’s sex abuse scandals that the leader of an American diocese has been held criminally liable for the behavior of a priest he supervised. The indictment of the bishop, […]

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Shownotes for today’s episode: Here’s To the Crazy Ones by Steve Jobs Occupy Together meetup groups Lucian Randolph “How is the game of Monopoly won?” Owen Flanagan and Alex Rosenberg on the significance of naturalism. Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher Ryan, Cacilda […]

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On this episode – A trader tell us that Goldman Sachs rules the world, en economist tells us what’s wrong with capitalism, Elizabeth Warren explains why the rich paying tax isn’t class warfare, a rate gets a new brain implant and the Catholic Church in South Australia covers up child abuse. Trader Tells Truth Stewart […]

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Has it really been 11 months since the last time I did a podcast with Father Bob Maguire? Unconscionable. Today we talk about Bob’s imminent execution (“Keep Bob On The Job!”), Twitter, The Catholic Church in Philadelphia, Bob’s Lego auction, Julia wrapped in the flag, Bob’s appearance on Think Inc, iPhone 5, Troy Davis, Jim […]

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On today’s podcast, I look at why conservative white males are ignorant, how Wall Street scammed America, why capitalism is doomed, and why religion in Australia is in decline.   Links: Conservative White Male Effect on Climate Change Measured The Decade’s Biggest Scam How Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Loans from Fed Is Capitalism […]

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On today’s show, I talk about the following stories: WORLD PEACE COULD BE CLOSER THAN YOU THINK  The Empire at Dusk  – How the Pentagon is a massive fraud on the American people. The Great Splintering – What happens when you destroy the social contract. Obama’s war on whistleblowers suffers setback

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Richard Giles is back this week to talk to me about a wide range of subjects, including: Reagan book “Tear Down This Myth” by Will Bunch US Debt by Administration Murdoch’s woes JP Morgan Chase Fine: Another Slap on the Wrist for Wall Street Google Profits Why Rich Is Testing a VPN Pentagon attack Human […]

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Richard Giles joins me again today! We chat about my meeting last night with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Google Plus, The News Of The World and more!

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Back in the good old days of podcasting, my co-host of the G’Day World podcast for a year or more was Richard Giles. Then life got in the way of podcasting sometime around the end of 2007 and he went on to do other things. On this episode, we catch up properly for the first […]

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I first met Kieran Salsone a few years ago at a BTUB not long after I moved to Brisbane. I’d already known him via his Twitter handle websinthe. I knew from the comic he used to write that he had a sharp political mind. But it wasn’t until I caught up with him for a cigar […]

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In the news today… WikiLeaks Haiti: The Earthquake Cables – The Nation has some background (via Wikileaks) on what was happening in Haiti after the earthquake. Remember all those troops that the USA sent in with the excuse of “security”? Well it turns out the US troops weren’t there at the request of President Préval […]

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My guest today is Virginia Balmain who is the President of the United Nations Association of Australia (QLD) and the Vice-President of the UNAA in Australia. We chat about Australia’s role in the UN, our obligations as a Member Nation, and some of the contentious issues surrounding the UN – the veto power of the […]

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Veteran crime reporter Adam Shand joins me again on the show to talk about the TWO films being made based on his book KING OF THIEVES, as well as about diamond heists, the HELLS ANGELS,  police corruption and just how lazy the lamestream media have become.

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Note: This show is a week old, sorry about that folks. I had weird trouble uploading it to the server. Mostly relevant though, except I have more to say about Mr Rapture. On today’s show I talk about Harold Camping’s failed Rapture, the International Conference on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants’s summary of the Fukushima […]

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The majority of today’s show is about the most evil corporation on the planet, Goldman Sachs, and a great book about them called GRIFTOPIA by Matt Taibbi. I also cover recent news about Obama’s backing down on the Middle East peace process, how piracy drove a book called GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP to the […]

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I have plenty of concerns about the Bin Laden assassination this week, both in terms of what actually happened and how it is being reported. How could the US President make so many mistakes in his explanation of events? Is it legal to assassinate someone who hasn’t had a trial to determine guilt? Does questioning […]

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As I mentioned on episode #22, Rod Adams (@atomicrod) is a self-professed nuclear energy “obsessive” since 1981. He writes at the Atomic Insights blog and has produced the Atomic Show podcast on TPN since 2005. He chatted with me tonight about Fukushima – why the risk to human health is extremely small, how it’s different […]

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Show notes for this episode: A Different Perspective on Fukushima from Atomic Insights by @atomicrod Atomtronics, Or Atoms Spun By Laser Beams, Could Replace Electronics Glenn Greenwald: WH forces P.J. Crowley to resign for condemning abuse of Manning The liberal game of silencing the messenger by John Pilger Ross Garnaut says science on climate change is […]

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Nine Afghan Boys Killed by NATO Helicopters – NYTimes.com The Greens up two to 15 per cent British UFO reports Rudd condemns air strike on Afghan boys UFOs over Sydney – the intergalactic neighbours drop by The Capitalist’s Paradox Bank of England governor blames spending cuts on bank bailouts Four time bombs that will blow […]

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My guest IN THE STUDIO today is John Cook, astrophyscist, web developer, and founder of Skeptical Science, an absolutely brilliant resource for anyone needing to refute the common climate change denialist. We talk about what motivates climat change denialists (and the difference between being a SKEPTIC and a DENIALIST) and some of the refutations of […]

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My guest today is Australian author, journalist, blogger and Middle East specialist, Antony Loewenstein. Links for today’s show: “What has Wikileaks ever taught us?” American Being Held for Shootings in Pakistan Worked as Blackwater CIA Contractor Britain suddenly discovers that democracy is a jolly good idea? Robert Fisk on Libya Hamas calls US veto on anti-settlement […]

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[audio:http://http://noillusionspodcast.com/audio/tpn_noillusions_20110218_18.mp3] First show of the year, new format. Straight news reads of stories I found interesting from the last couple of days, with a little bit of commentary thrown in. Future shows will include interviews as well. Borders Oz IS going bust… Shy U.S. Intellectual Created Playbook Used in a Revolution… Jeopardy! Elementary for supercomputer […]

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Last night Chrissy & I chatted for an hour about Wikileaks. We point out the mistakes a lot of people on Twitter (mostly Americans) are making when it comes to Wikileaks. We talk about the major stories that Wikileaks have broken with Cablegate, as well as the truth behind the Assange “rape” allegations. Chrissy also […]

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Links for this week’s live show: Report: Alcohol more dangerous that heroin, cocaine, crystal meth, ecstasy, tobacco California’s Prop 19 Randy Quaid’s Press Conference Gang Stalking World “Boat People” aka REFUGEES – a problem or an opportunity? Man Arrested in Brisbane for Wearing a T-shit that said “Jesus Is A Cunt” Yemen “Bomb Scare” – a CIA […]

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Where I’m going to attempt to explain LOTU, the religion for atheists. Check it out. LOTU podcast #1.

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On last night’s live show, we discussed the Iraq War Logs recently released by Wikileaks, how to tell when you might have fascism on your hands, and a little about the morals of sleeping sex. You can tune into our live show every Tuesday night 8pm QLD time on uStream. Watch the recorded video below or download […]

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For those of you who missed it live, here’s last night’s show (all two-and-a-half hours of it!). Some of the things we talked about: Chrissy’s experience getting her Australian permanent visa How America ended up in Vietnam Daniel Ellsberg “The Most Dangerous Man In America” The Russian Revolution The USA deliberately infecting Guatelamalens with syphilis Cam […]

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Today I chat with Rob James and Andrew Blanda – two guys who, with their mate Raz Chorev, are trying to do something to raise awareness of male depression. What are they doing? They will embark on their first major ride in September 2010, from Sydney to the Glen Helen Resort, NT, (joining Steve Andrews from […]

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I did a live show for the first time in ages tonight! Of course the topic of discussion was last weekend’s federal election. Thanks for everyone who tuned in live! Choose between the video or the audio version of the show below. For future reference, you can catch the live show here on Monday nights […]

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Ewan Saunders is the Socialist Alliance’s Brisbane candidate in the upcoming federal election. I caught up with him recently to talk about socialism, climate change, indigenous communities, and the Socialist Alliance’s policies on subjects like Iraq, Afghanistan and immigration. As I mention during the show, if you’re interested in hearing more about “participatory democracy”, then listen to […]

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My guest today is Adam Shand, investigative journalist / author from Melbourne. He was a guest on #293 discussing his book “Big Shots” which focused on the Melbourne “Gangland Wars” and Carl Williams. On this episode, Adam discusses Carl’s recent murder and his allegations of police corruption in Victoria. We also chat about Adam’s new […]

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On this episode, Chrissy and I chat with our friend Angus Scown (@angusscown) about living on a hippy commune (Angus, his wife and kids live at Crystal Waters, an eco-village a couple of hours north of Brisbane) and why Australia needs a MINISTRY OF ETHICS. Chrissy and I were smoking Perdomo Lot 23 Maduro cigars […]

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Late last week, Chrissy and I sat down with Hugo Sharp for a cigar and a chat about the latest news in politics, religion, science and philosophy…. oh and cannibalism. Here’s the list of stories we chatted about: Maxim Golovatskikh and Yury Mozhnov ‘killed Karina Barduchian and ate her’ Every Black Hole Contains Another Universe? […]

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Last week I launched a new TPN podcast callde “Cigar Talk”. The basic format will be my partner in Perdomo Cigars Australia, Jason Nelson, and I talking to people who appreciate a fine cigar. Episode one features Filip Pilioras from Paladar Fumior Salon in Brisbane, his friend Nick and ChrissyD! Check it out below and […]

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Tonight we try something we haven’t done in a long time – Chrissy joins me on the podcast. We lit up a Perdomo Lot 23, sat outside on our deck, and talked about a lot of things including: – Why comics are like classical music (I recommend reading DMZ and KICK-ASS) and admire the work […]

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On today’s show: my thoughts on Nicaragua (including a quick history of the oppression of the Nicaraguan people by Spain and the USA), why cigars are awesome and a few words on Obamacare.

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One of my favourite “new atheists” is Angie Jackson aka “Angie The Anti-Theist”. At only 27, she’s been blogging, tweeting & YouTubing up a storm for the last two years since she googled her grandmother and discovered she had spent her whole life growing up in an extreme Christian cult. Now she’s fighting again faith in […]

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Today I’m chatting about Haiti. To understand why many people are concerned about the USA sending thousands of marines into Haiti after the recent earthquake, you have to understand the history between these two countries. Of course, you won’t hear much of this in the mainstream media, as they tend to have amnesia. However a […]

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My first No Illusions podcast for 2010! Today I’m talking about the Australian Government’s “clean feed” with three guys who know a lot more about it than I do: Stephen Collins (@trib), Peter Black (@peterblackQUT) and Jim Stewart (@jimboot). This episode was recorded with a live studio audience. Well, okay, they weren’t in a studio, […]

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Tech disasters are like being attacked by a Great White – you never see the danger coming until it’s too late. Yesterday morning I shut the lid on my two-year old Macbook Pro 17″ to take a shower. Fifteen minutes later, when I opened up the screen again, nothing happened. I tried re-booting it, taking […]

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In case you missed the announcement, I recently launched a new TPN podcast: The Peter Ellyard Show. Peter has been a good friend and regular guest on this show for several years. We worked together on his latest book, Designing 2050: Pathways To Sustainable Prosperity On Spaceship Earth. Peter has a massive amount of experience […]

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Rangan Srikhanta is the Executive Director, One Laptop per Child Australia. On this show he chats with me about their efforts to get laptops into the hands of kids living in remote regions of Australia. The idea to speak with OLPC came out of a recent Geeks Who Care meeting we had in Brisbane. OLPC […]

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Yvonne Adele (aka Ms Megabyte) is a Melbourne-based entrepreneur and founder of Ideas While You Sleep, an overnight brainstorming service for business utilising hundreds of clever global brains. It’s a brilliant idea for helping small and large businesses around the globe leverage the power of crowd-sourcing. It’s so terrific I’m embarrassed I didn’t think of […]

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He may be an Anglican, but KRudd is “one of the boys” when it comes to protecting the religious establishments of Australia. According to the BBC: Australian PM Kevin Rudd has apologised to the hundreds of thousands of people, some British migrants, who were abused or neglected in state care as children. (via BBC NEWS […]

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Episode 1 of the new show! The No Illusions Podcast examines the truth about how we’re living our lives. Today’s guest is Fiona Patten, the founder of The Australian Sex Party. That’s a political party, not a tupperware party. And they are SERIOUS. They have a great set of policies that I endorse, including ending […]

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As G’Day World is five years old this month (it started life on November 29, 2004), I’ve decided to sort of retire it. A show that started as a tech news podcast has, over the years, become my personal exploration of what’s really going on in the world. Hence the new name: No Illusions. I […]

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Bill Liao is one of those people who makes you realize that you aren’t trying hard enough. He chatted with me recently about two of his current projects – neo.org and WeForest.com. Bill explains how he is building a new organization with resources and partners to reforest 20 Million Square Kilometers of the Earth in […]

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I was an early follower of @GayMarriageAus because I’m a big supporter of gay marriage rights. I was delightfully surprised, though, to find out that the person behind it is a 17 year old high school student, Rebecca. I chatted with her recently about why she’s supporting gay rights. We also talked about The Australian […]

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My guest today is David Nicholls, the President of the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the co-ordinator of the 2010 Global Atheist Conference which is being held in Melbourne in March 2010. Do you want an independent media? The Podcast Network is supported by: neo.org – a social network with a purpose – to transform […]

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Recordings from tonight’s live show. It’s in three parts because uStream kept dropping out. Ugh. And the audio on the first two parts is peaking, but they aren’t very long. We talked mostly about the implications of the discovery that Hitler’s skull belongs to a woman and about how to overthrow the Obama Nation. Part […]

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http://www.ustream.tv/flash/video/2165830 for those of you who couldn’t make it last night….

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Here are the recordings of last night’s GDay World Live with myself and the lovely @fddlgrl. Part One http://www.ustream.tv/flash/video/2125552 Part Two http://www.ustream.tv/flash/video/2125616

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Today my guest is Mike Snyder (@mambomike282), a listener of the show who owns a security firm in Washington state. As a Christian, he wanted to challenge me on the subject of evolution and religion, and so we went for it. 🙂 Do you want an independent media? The Podcast Network is supported by: neo.org […]

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Chrissy and I did a live show last night, where we talked some politics, some religion, and then played a violin / viola duet. http://www.ustream.tv/flash/video/2085327 We’re going to get back to doing a live show every Tuesday night, 8pm Brisbane time. Tune in here.

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A few days ago I had a chance to chat with Jon Dee, founder of Planet Ark and the new Do Something! initiative, about his life and goals. We talked about everything from his involvement in Rock Aid Armenia (where he pulled together a list of top Brit Rockers to perform a charity concert and […]

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I’m running a twtpoll today about the launch of ‘digital radio’ in Australia. Of course, as far as I’m concerned, ‘digital radio’ is a pretty silly concept. Podcasting has been around for five years and with iPhone and iPods and the like becoming pretty mainstream, podcasting already gives audiences a digital experience. Why would you […]

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David Horn works with Microsoft in Seattle and is one of the organisers of the 2009 Space Elevator Conference. What is a “space elevator”, I hear you ask? Only the coolest idea you’ve ever heard! Imagine a day in the not-too-distant future where getting into space involves jumping into something like a luxury train that […]

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Wolfgang Puck is one of the most famous chefs in the world. Antony Van Couvering is the founder of Minds + Machines. On today’s show they chat with me about their bid to own the new “top level domain” – .FOOD. Do you want an independent media? The Podcast Network is supported by: neo.org – […]

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http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5834380&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Brisbane Confidential 07 – The Da Vinci Machines Exhibition I don’t I’ve plugged the Brisbane Confidential show much in this blog, but I thought this episode might interest y’all, because it’s about Da Vinci – and who doesn’t love Da Vinci? New episodes of Brisbane Confidential are available each Thursday on ourbrisbane.com, BrisbaneConfidential.com and […]

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I am privileged today to have, as guests on the show, the director and subject of the film that won the Grand Jury Prize award in the U.S. documentary category at the Sundance Film Festival this year (which makes Ondi the first and only two time Grand Jury Prize winner in Sundance history!). The film […]

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Tim Freke is the co-author (with his writing partner Peter Gandy) of many books about the Jesus myth – including THE JESUS MYSTERIES and THE LAUGHING JESUS. I chatted with him recently about one of their books “The Gospel of the Second Coming”, a marvelous book that manages to combine humour and insight – it […]

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My guests today help me explore some of the alternatives to the “Big Four” banks in Australia. Let’s say that you, like me, want to completely disassociate yourself from the Big Four – where do you turn? Are there alternatives in Australia? Yes, say my guests: Andrew Hadley, COO, Credit Union Australia Tony Beck, Group […]

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I’ve been talking about why we hate banks. It might be because they hate us! Some insight into the way banks work from Dilbert creator Scott Adams (who says he was working at a bank when Dilbert was born): Banks and credit card companies make a lot of money from late fees. They have a […]

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In this, the latest show in my series trying to show that the Jesus story is probably a myth or hoax, my guest is a PhD student at the University of Helsinki in the field of biblical study. He chatted with me recently about the evidence to support the theory that there once was a […]

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My guest on today’s show is Michael Doneman – one part business coach, one part social activist, one part guru. Over the last few months his name has come up in a startling variety of conversations I’ve had with people. These people have a few things in common – they are very bright, have a […]

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My guest today is Jabiz R. Born in Iran, raised in America, now living in Qatar, Jabiz is an educator and blogger. I’ve really enjoyed some of his posts about Iran lately so I invited him onto the show.

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Last week I wrote a post on the recent report out of Ireland about the true extent of child abuse committed by the Catholic Church from the ’30s through to the ’70s. A few people on Twitter tried to suggest there was no connection between abuse in Ireland and in Australia, so I invited Dr […]

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Hey folks, apparently I screwed up the track alignment in show 381 (about banks) so there is a fair amount of overlapping of voices. (Thanks to Anthony Voevodin for letting me know!) I’ve re-edited the show and fixed it up, and I’m attaching it here. By the way folks, don’t forget – if you are […]

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UPDATE: The original audio for this show had a problem (overlapping tracks) so I’ve re-uploaded it here. We hate banks. (see my recent poll) It’s true. You know it. I know it. The only people who don’t seem to know it are the banks themselves. Although, I suspect they DO know it – they just […]

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Today I’m recording a podcast about why people hate banks so much – and what we can do about it. I’m interviewing a range of people about banks, independent commentators as well as bank representatives. This all started with a twtpoll I started last night about which bank is the least evil. We all know […]

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In 1992, Melbourne businesswoman Yvonne Bornstein and her husband Daniel went to Russia on a business trip. They were kidnapped at the airport and tortured for 11 days in captivity while their captors held them for random. They were finally rescued in a joint operation by the FBI and the KGB. Yvonne joined me on […]

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Yesterday afternoon I was sitting in a cafe here in Brisbane, reading, thinking about how unlikely it was that Chrissy and I were both in Ajaccio at the same time last year. How, statistically, we should never have met. And then I started thinking about what lead me there… about all of the little events […]

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After a year of talking about it, I’ve finally decided to launch a podcast about Brisbane – Brisbane Confidential. The goal is to produce a weekly video magazine highlighting some of the best bits of Brisbane – the cafes, bars, restaurants, clubs, gigs, boutique shops and people that are making Brisbane a cooler place to […]

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For the last six years, Dr Paul Twomey (born in Dalby QLD, raised in Brisbane) has been running the interwebs. SRSLY. As CEO / President of ICANN, he’s been the guy who makes sure all of the tubes and pipes are clean and smooth. I got to chat with him for 15 minutes last week […]

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That was the subject of a debate I was part of last week, run by AIMIA QLD. There were four of us on the panel and I was part of the “NO” team. Not by choice. It was fun and tough to make a case AGAINST the mobile phone, especially as I love my iPhone […]

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Based on this month’s idea from SaveTheWorld.tv (and thanks to @fddlgrl for the link!), I’m going to attend one of the Brisbane City Council meetings each month and will blog/podcast/tweet from there. I think it’s a great idea for all of us to start to get more involved in local politics, even if it’s just […]

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Via deusexmalcontent: This forum "Teens Against Pornography" is a must read. Are you addicted to pornography?It’s a simple question. Are you? Have you ever decided to stop? Yeah, so have we. How long did it last for you? It even has a podcast! Teh pr0ncast offers practical, Christian-oriented advice to teens that desire to stop […]

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This coming Monday (May 18th) I will be participating in a debate at QPAC on the topic “Can Your Mobile Save The Planet?”. I am taking the NO position (well I’ve been told that the position I have to take) and you know that I AM THE WORLD’S GREATEST DEBATER! I DEBATE ALL OF THE […]

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Today’s guest is the founder of the WORLD SUPERHERO REGISTRY, a website deals with the actual incorporation of the superhero archetype into daily life. His superhero name is KEVLEX (a portmanteau of “kevlar” and “spandex”). (note: this isn’t Kevlex – photo courtesy of Toastie14) We talked about what it takes to be a superhero in […]

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Dr Philip Nitschke, PhD, MBBS, BSc (Hons) is the Founder and Director of Exit International, the world’s leading Voluntary Euthanasia and end-of-life choices information and advocacy organisation. A few days after recording this interview, Philip and his wife were detained at London’s Heathrow airport for nine hours and denied access to a lawyer. During the […]

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This is the recording from the live show I did last Tuesday. Find out how you can be part of the G’Day World Live experience here. My guest on the show is Steve McDonald from a company called Transcendence. Steve has consulted in change management, strategic planning and organisational development in the public, private and […]

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Every now and again I get to chat with someone who has been an inspiration to me for many years – Noam Chomsky, Ray Kurzweil, Doc Searls, Leo Sayer, John Romero, Vint Cerf – and this is another of those episodes. Kalle Lasn is the founder of Adbusters magazine and author of the books Culture […]

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On 19 April, 2009, rebel Catholic priest Peter Kennedy said his last mass at St Mary’s Church in Brisbane, then he and his congregation stood up, marched out of the church, down the street, and into their new premises, where they are calling themselves “St Mary’s In Exile”. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4240286&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1Rebel Priest Fr Peter Kennedy’s Last St […]

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On G’Day World Live this week my guest was Fi Bendall from Bendalls Group. Fi is one of Australia’s best known digital strategists who has worked with clients from MTV to Amnesty. She came on to chat about how social media is challenging corporate cultures in Australia and what needs to happen before those companies […]

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Tara Hunt, author of the new book “The Whuffie Factor”, chats with me about whuffie – what it is, what we do with it, and how it changes the game. Follow Tara on Twitter or her blog and read about the book here. If you want to join me in celebrating Vanini Day, then join […]

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My guest today is Dr Greg Clarke (PhD), Honorary Associate, Dept of Ancient History, Macquarie University and Director of the Centre for Public Christianity. We talk about the survey that the CPX has recently sponsored that finds that 55 per cent of Australians don’t believe that Jesus rose from the dead but only 11 per […]

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OMFG. Last night I did a live show with my most-excellent co-host Mr Nick Hodge and WE TALKED FOR FOUR HOURS. I kid you not. I only recorded the first THREE HOURS and I present them to you here (well the audio version anyway – to see the video you have to turn up on […]

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Recently I spent an hour chatting with rebel Catholic priest Peter Kennedy in his South Brisbane church St Mary’s. Peter’s “sins” include talking about and promoting advaita and trying to include homosexuals and women in his services. View part one here and part two here.

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Recently I spent an hour chatting with rebel Catholic priest Peter Kennedy in his South Brisbane church St Mary’s. Peter’s “sins” include talking about and promoting advaita and trying to include homosexuals and women in his services. View part one here. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3996567&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1Peter Kennedy, Rebel Priest, Part Two from Cameron Reilly on Vimeo. http://widget.chipin.com/widget/id/d3b7a44909380763

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Today I spent an hour chatting with rebel Catholic priest Peter Kennedy in his South Brisbane church St Mary’s. Peter’s “sins” include talking about and promoting advaita and trying to include homosexuals and women in his services. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3972804&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1Peter Kennedy, Rebel Priest – part 1 from Cameron Reilly on Vimeo. http://widget.chipin.com/widget/id/d3b7a44909380763

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Irwin Zalkin is a US attorney whose firm, The Zalkin Law Firm PC, specializes in clergy sexual abuse cases. He joins me to talk about the recent news that the Vatican can be sued in a United States court over alleged molestation by its priests. If you want to keep TPN on the air, please […]

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On today’s show I get to chat with one of the most powerful men in Hollywood – Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of Dreamworks Animation – about their new film MONSTERS V ALIENS and the introduction of their new 3D technology. I also chat with the director of the film, Conrad Vernon.

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Today I had the pleasure to catch up once again with G’Day World regular Dr Peter Ellyard, futurist, environmentalist, and author of “Designing 2050: Pathways To Sustainable Prosperity On Spaceship Earth” which is published by TPN TXT. Buy your copy now! I chatted with Peter today about the recent IPCC report, Kevin Rudd’s emissions trading […]

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Tim Burrowes, formerly the editor of B&T Magazine and now the guy behind the excellent mumbrella blog about media and marketing, invited me to write a guest post there today. Excerpt and link below. clipped from mumbrella.com.au Guest post: If you want an independent media start supporting it As Mumbrella reported earlier this week, The […]

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This episode was recorded LIVE on Tuesday March 17, 2009. We have an audience following in a chat room on the G’Day World uStream page and my guests include: Ian Kath – The Polyamorist Nick Beaugeard – The Climate Change Skeptic and Kate Edwards – The Polyamory Skeptic

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They are all featured in today’s show! On today’s show I just have another little heart-to-heart chat with anyone out there who is still listening. Among other things, I talk about: The State of TPN’s finances The threat of marketing spam on Twitter Obama’s plan for Cuba Sean Penn’s interviews with Chavez and Raul Castro […]

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If you read comics at all, you’re probably know who Ben Templesmith is already. If you don’t read comics – then why not? Anyway, Templesmith is an Australian-born comic book artist / writer who now lives and works in the USA where is perhaps best known for his work on 30 DAYS OF NIGHT (which […]

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My guest today is Mara Bun, CEO of Green Cross Australia. According to their site: Green Cross Australia is a new national NGO that works on the frontline of climate change: the human dimension. We anticipate and resolve conflicts over natural resources that put our environment at risk, and we foster sustainable partnerships between business, […]

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Today my guests are Omar Kalifa, Managing Director, and Cinnamon Pollard, Partnership and Marketing Manager, of a new social networking site that is bring officially launched today called LIVEWIRE. According to their site: Livewire is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Starlight Children’s Foundation and is supported by funding from the Australian Government under the […]

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When I was visiting my girl Chrissy in Seattle last October, I met her best friend Jed Montgomery. The four of us (including Jed’s partner Chris) had some vigorous debates about American politics. I was trying to make my point that for all of Obama’s intelligence and oratory, at the end of the day he’s […]

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You’ve seen it in the news over the last month. On December 27, Israel broke a six-month truce with Hamas (the democratically-elected leaders of the Palestinian people living in Gaza) and launched a three-week long attack on the small, densely-populated region. Palestinian casualties – 1,400 dead including more than 400 children and 100 women. Israeli […]

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As some of you know, the main source of my income at the moment is producing podcasts for companies and government departments. Check this site for the basic pitch. I can produce podcasts for anyone anywhere in the world. Obviously video podcasts are limited to where I can get with my camera, but I’ve been […]

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Back in May 2007 I was fortunate enough (thanks to Stan Relihan’s efforts) to score an interview with the great Vint Cerf, the father of the Internet. It was a wonderful conversation and definitely one of my favourite interviews. I hope you enjoy it (again).

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Rapper Greydon Square joins me again on the show to talk about his new album The CPT Theorem. If you haven’t heard of 27 year-old Greydon before (or heard my first interview with him), his story is interesting: he grew up (as Eddie Collins) in a Group Home in Compton, California, got involved with a […]

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By great demand, here’s my new video podcast – A Single Man’s Guide to Cooking Great Shit.

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Well folks… it’s 2009 and I’m going through the archives, still trying to piece together the missing shows. I’m re-discovering lots of old shows myself and thinking “wow, I should listen to that one again”. And so, while I’m busy trying to fix stuff, I thought I’d plug a few of the old shows that […]

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First show for 2009! Steve Sammartino, who you may remember from our earlier shows (see: G’Day World #336 – The Sammartino Method (aka How To Get Rich Slowly and Surely)), joins me again tonight to revisit the investment strategy he discussed with us back in July 2008. Now that the world is in the worst […]

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Have you donated yet to the TPN Pledge Drive? Help support independent media! Today’s interview features Wayne Denning, Managing Director of Brisbane-based media company, Carbon Media. I caught up with Wayne to chat about the issues currently surrounding Aboriginal people in Australia and what I feel is a particularly insidious form of racism on the […]

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American Teen is a terrific documentary about 5 high school seniors in a small American town struggling with their last year of school and figuring out who they are and what they want to do with their lives. On today’s show I chat with the director of American Teen, Academy Award nominee Nanette Burstein.

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Have you donated yet to the TPN Pledge Drive? Help support independent media! My guest today on G’Day World is once again Australian journalist and author Antony Loewenstein. Antony was on a couple of months ago to discuss his excellent book “The Blogging Revolution” and today he has come back on to discuss Kevin Rudd’s […]

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Dear TPN listeners, viewers and friends, You know that we spend a LOT of time producing our shows for you. And as we aren’t making money out of advertising, we’d like to ask for your support to help us keep TPN running. We have real costs in IT support, hardware, bandwidth, etc., as well as […]

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While I was in Seattle last month, my good mate Buzz Bruggeman (CEO of the best application for Windows EVER – Activewords… why the hell hasn’t Microsoft bought him out yet??), took me to meet another friend of his, T. A. McCann, CEO of Gist.com, a start-up (funded by Paul Allen’s Vulcan) that integrates your […]

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Today’s show is the latest in my series examining the Christian charity Mercy Ministries and it’s relationship with the Gloria Jean’s Coffee chain and the evangelical Christian church Hillsong. My guest today is an Australian woman who is using the pseudonym “Sarah Mac” to protect her identity. She spent 8 months as a voluntary patient […]

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Dr David Skellern is the CEO of NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence. He’s also an engineer and entrepreneur, who sold a company he co-founded (Radiata) to Cisco in 2001. I caught up with him for 10 minutes a couple of weeks ago for a chat about why ICT R&D in […]

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I’m working on a new project – a video podcast highlighting the best cafes, bars and other hidden gems of Brisbane. Here’s my beta podcast.

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My guest on show #350 is American author (who now lives in Ireland) Richard J Moore, author of “Escaping The Matrix“. I was introduced to Richard’s work recently via an article he wrote about Russia, Georgia and South Ossetia. Richard tells me that the kind of government we have in the USA, UK and Australia […]

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Antony Loewenstein is an a Sydney-based freelance journalist, author and blogger whose latest book, The Blogging Revolution, is “a colourful and revelatory account of bloggers around the globe who live and write under repressive regimes – many of them risking their lives in doing so.” {Photo:Bryan Siebel} Sources of global dissident blogs: Global Voices Online […]

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Meeting Everett True isn’t what you’d expect. When I went to his house a few weeks ago, I expected to be confronted by Spider Jerusalem in the flesh. Instead I was greeted by someone looking like a middle-aged accountant. Quite the anti-climax. But the man is still the man. Who is Everett True, I hear […]

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Ahh…. Microsoft. I love ya. Where do they get so many folks who can’t cope once they lose their powerpoint cheat sheet? In the first of a series of interviews with Microsoft folks from the last couple of weeks, today I present a few interviews I did at their TechEd 2008 event in Sydney. In […]

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Just when I was congratulating myself that my Napoleon podcast was the greatest thing to happen to teaching history since the Christians realized that if they killed their enemies and burned all their books then they had total control over “the truth”… Bron introduces me to DRUNK HISTORY. Totally brilliant. I’m sick with jealousy.

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Today I’m chatting with Karen Paterson, Head of live! Services at Vodafone Australia and David Loiterton, Managing Director, Australia, Omnifone, about the new service just launched in Australia called MusicStation. Here’s the blurb from the press release: ==== START EVIL PRESS RELEASE ==== Vodafone Australia today launched MusicStation, Australia’s first unlimited mobile music download service, […]

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I’ve been a big fan of Ayn Rand‘s work since I first read “The Fountainhead” when I was about 20. I quickly read everything of hers I could get my hands on and I re-read both “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged” every couple of years. I’ve wanted to do a show on her work for […]

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My guest on #344 is Ben Witherington III, an evangelical Biblical scholar and lecturer on New Testament Studies, who is currently Professor on the New Testament for Doctoral Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. In our discussion, Prof. Witherington makes a case for the historicity of the New Testament and for the existence […]

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Cam & Kev (from TPN’s SOUSED podcast) hit a few more Melbourne cocktail bars a couple of weeks ago… it was RESEARCH goddamit!…. to chat with some of the owners and bartenders who have been nominated for the upcoming Melbourne Bar Awards.

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My guest today is Robert M Price, a Professor of Theology and Scriptural Studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary in Miami Gardens, Florida. He is a fellow of the Jesus Seminar and the author of many books and articles on religion. Some of you may remember Robert from his appearance in the documentary The […]

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I had the very great pleasure of hanging out with Pastor Dr Craig Johnson in Paris back in July. We had a terrific time, including some very great laughs walking through the Louvre. Craig is an Evangelical Protestant clergyman. He is the founder and Pastor of Bethel Christian Fellowship in Agoura Hills, California.  He is  […]

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ANGUS, THONGS AND PERFECT SNOGGING is the new film by British director Gurinder Chadha (BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM, BRIDE AND PREJUDICE). The star of the film is 16 year-old Georgia Groome. I chatted with Georgia today about life, acting and finishing her A levels. I also tried to get her to do a duet with […]

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I don’t know how many of you listen to my Biography podcast, but the episode we recorded today is, I think, pretty interesting, so i hope you don’t mind me throwing it into this feed. Today we tackle two subjects – Egyptian Pharoah Akhenaten (aka Amenhotep IV) and Moses. Originally we were going to do […]

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This morning I was given an opportunity to interview Hilary Mine, Alcatel-Lucent’s Managing Director Australasia and North Asia, about the launch of the Alcatel-Lucent Broadband Environment Challenge 2008 they did this morning in Melbourne with Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. The Challenge looks to award the Eckermann-TJA Prize ($10,000 […]

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Today my guests is Donnie Maclurcan, Executive Director of Project Australia, a national organisation helping people launch ideas that seek to create positive social change within communities. Donnie tells me how the idea came together, how it all works, and what they are trying to do. He’s a terrific example of someone who has taken […]

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On today’s show I’m joined by Sophie Peer, China Campaign Co-ordinator for Amnesty International, Fi Bendall from the Bendall Group, and Ben Barren, social media baron, to discuss the online campaign Amnesty have run over the last 3 weeks to raise awareness of China’s human rights record. The campaign asked Australian bloggers to unite and […]

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I’m excited today to launch the latest podcast to join the TPN family: I had Katherine Cunningham as a guest on G’Day World back in Oct 2007 and afterwards offered her her own show on TPN. It’s taken a while (all my fault!) to get it up and running but I’m very excited about it. […]

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One of the wonderful people I met while in Ajaccio was Allon Klebanoff, an Israeli historian who is the closest thing to a “Renaissance Man” that I’ve ever met. Allon gave a terrific presentation on naval art during Napoleonic times at the Congress and, over much alcohol and good food during five days, we discussed […]

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Steve Sammartino is not only the founder of Rentoid.com (see G’Day World #306), he’s also one of the smartest money managers that I’ve ever met. By age 33, Steve had built up a big enough share portfolio to be able to quit his corporate marketing job and live completely on the dividends. That was two […]

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Today’s show is a continuation of the examination I’ve been doing around the relationship and practices of Gloria Jean’s Coffee, Hillsong Church and Mercy Ministries. Today’s guest is a former resident of Mercy Ministries in the United States. She spent 7 months inside Mercy about 8 years ago and is still today too frightened of […]

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In 1980, at age ten, I bought my very first LP record – “Living In A Fantasy” by Leo Sayer. I listened to it constantly – 20 years later I bought it on CD and today it’s always on my iPod. Leo has had several Number One hits around the world, “You Make Me Feel […]

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Yeah I know I’ve been quiet for a few weeks. I expected to have more time / bandwidth in France than I ended up getting. And I’m currently editing a podcast that I recorded in Ajaccio with an Israeli historian Allon Klebanoff about J. S. Bach which will be up soon. Meanwhile, I’m crazy busy […]

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So while I was in France I was presented with the quite-prestigious “Legion Of Merit” award by the La Société Napoléonienne (aka the International Napoleonic Society) for my “contribution to the promotion of Napoleonic history” via the Napoleon podcast I produce on TPN. As you can see, I’m the 97th person to receive the award. […]

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Subscribe now to the weekly update email (fill in the below box) to get a weekly list of all of the new episodes on TPN in one easy-to-read format! Enter your email address: ====================================================== My guest today is Matt Norman. Matt is an Aussie actor/director/producer who has a new documentary coming out called “Salute The […]

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I fly out today to attend the International Napoleonic Society’s conference in Ajaccio, Corsica. I’m spending a week there and a week in Paris. My co-host of the Napoleon podcast, J. David Markham, and I will be shooting video podcasts from Les Invalides (where he’s buried), La Malmaison (where he lived with Josephine), Arc de […]

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Subscribe now to the weekly update email (fill in the below box) to get a weekly list of all of the new episodes on TPN in one easy-to-read format! Enter your email address: ====================================================== My guest today is Peter Singer. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor […]

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My guests tonight are a couple from Melbourne who we’ll call “Bazza” and “Shazza”. For the last five years they were franchisees with Gloria Jean’s Coffee. They’ve come on to discuss their experience. As regular readers will know, I’ve been taking an interest in Gloria Jean’s over the last few years (read earlier posts here), […]

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Tonight’s guests – Katherine Szuminska & Matthew Landauer – are the founders of OpenAustralia.org, a recently-launched site which makes politics more transparent. Based on the British site TheyWorkForYou, OpenAustralia.org scrapes Hansard and makes it much more accessible. You can find out who your local MP is and then subscribe to email alerts whenever they say […]

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On the show today, something a little different – I’m interviewed by Rob McNealy from StartUpStoryRadio.com. Before I throw to the interview, I talk about some recent blog posts, including the OpenAustralia and Registry of Members’ Interests issue, the Gloria Jean’s story and the future of the newspaper industry. Don’t miss out on winning the […]

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Today I got to chat with another person I admire – Stephen Mayne. As I’m sure most of you will know, Stephen is the founder of Crikey.com.au. These days he is also running a video podcast “The Mayne Report” where he takes his video crew into Annual General Meetings for some of Australia’s largest companies […]

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Today I talk about what I’ve learned recently from the following books: Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (2003) The Rise And Fall Of The Great Powers by Paul Kennedy (1988) Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky (2002) I also talk about an alternative to Hiroshima the Roadrunner supercomputer why a high IQ is linked to atheism […]

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Andre writes the “Lost Parent Diary” blog and he recently contacted me about a podcast I did where I mentioned how my twin boys started saving their pocket money to buy their own laptops when they were about five years old. He wrote it up into a blog post about teaching your kids to save […]

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I had the pleasure once again today to catch up with Dr Peter Ellyard, Australia’s leading futurist, one of our most popular public speakers and, of course, author of the historic first book published by TPNTXT: “Designing 2050: Pathways to sustainable prosperity on spaceship earth”. The auction for two signed proof copies of the book […]

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I just finished reading Tim Weiner’s book “Legacy Of Ashes: The History Of the CIA” and thought I should talk more about it. I think this is one of the most important books that have come out in the last decade. Why? Listen to the show to find out. I start by reading out a […]

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This is the longer audio piece from my chat with Jonathan Oxer. Jonathan has an RFID chip embedded in his arm which he can use to operate electronic devices in his house. Why? Listen and find out. If you haven’t yet seen the video to go with it, it’s here. Keep up to date with […]

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Jonathan has an RFID chip embedded in his arm. Why? Watch and find out. Keep up to date with Jon’s experimentation on his blog. As a result of all the media interest in his high-tech home, Jonathan is set to host a new TV show called SuperHouse which will go to air later this year. […]

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You’ve heard me say I don’t believe in free will. Well tonight I’ve got world famous author, speaker, psychologist and memeticist Dr Susan Blackmore on the show to explain why SHE doesn’t believe in free will either. We discuss the reductionist perspective, what neuroscientists she’s interviewed believe, and how to live your life once you’ve […]

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In #323 I welcome back a previous G’Day World guest, one of my favourite scientists, Dr Aubrey de Grey. Aubrey is the founder of The Methuselah Foundation, a non-profit 501c(3) organization committed to the acceleration of progress toward a cure for age-related disease, disability, suffering, and death. They are running a special conference on aging […]

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I like the look of Vidnik: It’s a simple program for using the built-in camera on your Mac to create movies and upload them to YouTube. I’ve played around with Seesmic a bit as a video blogging tool but I find it’s not very podcast-friendly. Seesmic wants you to use their site to store and […]

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My first show for a month!!! I explain why the big break on the show. But the main topic for today is Myanmar, or what the ignorant Western media insist on calling Burma. As you’ve heard, they were hit recently by a terrible cyclone and there are potentially 100,000 people dead and millions homeless. Western […]

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Ha! I bet you didn’t know you’re part of a cult, did you? And I’m not even talking about my CHURCH OF LOTU. I’m talking about the article in the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday, featuring interview with myself, Leo Laporte and TPN Health’s beti! Check it out.

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The nice folks at Microsoft Australia (Hi Finula!) have asked me to let you know that REMIX tickets are now on sale. Mark Pesce is the keynote speaker. I’ve never heard Mark speak but I’ve always heard great feedback on his sessions. Funnily, we were just talking about him and how much he charges to […]

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I’m back this week with my first show from Brisbane!! Today it’s just me talking about TPN’s recent technology woes, my decision not to take venture capital, communism, the origins of the concept of family, an up date on my personal coach, Tim Ferriss’ Four Hour Work Week, The Spider And The Starfish, and more! […]

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And on Sunday, he rested……. Holy god damn, what a week. Finally, this morning, TPN is back up (obviously, because I can write this and you can read it). I have to thank Phil Morle from Pollenizer for hooking me up with Jagadeesh from x-minds in India. Jag and his team got TPN back up […]

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This week on TPN – discussions about photowalking, the future of social networking, the Bear Stearns financial crisis, nuclear energy, a $3 Billion Man, a reversal of the full mount position, The Wire finale, footy, What To Do When You Become The Boss, box office results, with lots of free music and much, much more! […]

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Jamais Cascio is a San Francisco Bay Area-based writer and ethical futurist. He joins me today to talk about our growing reliance on online social networks and the net in general as forms of identity management. What are some of the consequences of putting your personal information online or – perhaps scarier – taking them […]

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Cait from TPN’s Global Geek podcast (and one of the original MODM’ers) pointed me to this story in the news today (see article below). This link between Hillsong Church and Gloria Jeans isn’t new to me. I blogged about it back in 2005. I was wondering why that post was getting so many hits today! […]

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Today we have a return of the “Cam Heart To Heart” show – aka “the rant” – where I don’t bother with a guest, I just tell you about what’s been on my mind lately. Today I talk about getting myself a performance coach, about reading up on Carl Jung, on Karl Marx, the Russian […]

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Bill Liao is one of those guys I just love to talk to. He’s smart, successful, humble, visionary – and nice to boot. Just who the hell does he think he is? Apart from being a successful serial entrepreneur and a co-founder of Xing.com (a massive social networking site based in Europe), Bill is also […]

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Jeremy Toeman is an expert in digital media and consumer technology. Over the past ten years he has designed, built, and marketed numerous award-winning products in the “convergence space, including the Slingbox. In December 2007, JT arranged for 25 SF geeks, including Ryan Block from Engadget and Robert Scoble from , to do some volunteering […]

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“THE DESERTER” is an ambitious novel by Peter Bourne. It explores the tensions between Israel and Palestine through the relationship of an Israeli doctor, who has been in England for 20 years after a fight with his father, and his siblings, when he returns home to Jerusalem for his father’s funeral. I really enjoyed the […]

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A few weeks ago I was introduced to Aussie entrepreneur Maria Sipka (and her husband JC) over breakfast in Yarraville by Ryan Trainor (G’Day World #280). We had a great chat and a few days ago I chatted to her from her home in Barcelona. Maria has a fascinating story – born in Bratislava, Slovakia, […]

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My guest today s Randall Cameron, National Sales Manager for My Virtual Home, a software company in Brisbane with an amazing product. It allows you to build a 3D virtual representation of your home – in ten minutes. With no need for any understanding of CAD. It’s brilliant. If you want to download the software […]

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Happy Birthday TPN! Three years ago today TPN opened for business. Thanks to the WayBack Machine, we know what it looked like. In 2008 we have lots more shows, half a million friends, and each year is better than the last. My thanks to everyone who has contributed to the story so far – my […]

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It’s been a while since we’ve launched a new show on TPN so I’m excited to announce The Biography Show starts today! David Markham and I have enjoyed some great feedback from the audience of our Napoleon 101 podcast, so we’re doing another series together. The idea behind The Biography Show is to examine the […]

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My guest today is Jane Mason, a strategy consultant in London who is an expert on using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to help teams maximize their potential. We chat about the background of MBTI, what all of the dichotomies mean, how it’s used in a corporate situation as well as ways to use it in […]

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I’m sure you have all sat in “virtual” meetings at your place of work that would have bored a monk. I remember sitting in on “virtual team meetings” in my Microsoft days when I and other members of the team would be playing each other on XBOX Live while our manager droned on. It doesn’t […]

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Over dinner last night, I heard about a scam being run by an Australian bank, where they tell business customers to pay $20 to speed up the processing of cheques they bank. An honest teller finally told this friend of mine, who had being paying the $20 once a week for years, that it was […]

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A few weeks ago I went on a tour of some of Melbourne’s top cocktail bars with my mate and TPN host “Cocktail” Kevin Clark. Kev, who tends bar at the Tiki Bar & Lounge in Richmond, hosts TPN’s Soused podcast (a podcast about cocktails) and is also co-host of TPN’s Geeks Of Hazzard. He […]

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On January 27, 2008, a small group of people gathered in South Melbourne for the inaugural meeting of Geeks Who Care, a group of geek activists who want to be more involved in their local communities. Attendees are (L to R): Colin Wilson, Matt Trentini, David Jackson, Father Bob Maguire, Cameron Reilly, Nay Parkinson, Tony […]

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Join Techcrunch’s Duncan Riley, Norg Media’s Bronwen Clune, World Communities’ Laurel Papworth, Tangler’s Mick Liubinskas and The Podcast Network’s Cameron Reilly for a chat about Heath Ledger’s death what we like and don’t like about Facebook the questions around Nik Cubrilovic’s Omnidrive the recent launch of Tinfinger the challenges of online identity … and other […]

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Efisia Fele, aka 01000101 on Twitter (it’s binary for ‘e’), aka Fiz to her friends, is a Melbourne-based actor, writer and director of horror films. I caught up with her a few days ago to talk about being a horror entrepreneur, as well as a wide ranging discussion about her directing debut LOST NOT FOUND, […]

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Yesterday I had one of the most exciting experiences I have had since starting podcasting 3+ years ago. While driving around Melbourne, I participated in the 2Web Crew podcast with Duncan in SF, Bron in Perth and Laurel in Sydney. I had my Macbook open on the seat beside me, connected via 3G card, and […]

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Late last week, Paul Montgomery (CEO) and Tai Tran (CTO) invited themselves over to Casa del Reilly to give me the rundown on Tinfinger. It’s kind of like the new Who’s Who. But online. And open. Less stuffy than Wikipedia. And they will pay you to write profiles on the site. Pay you, that is, […]

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2007 was a big year for TPN in lots of ways. We grew; we stumbled; we struggled; we survived. Bootstrapping a start-up isn’t glamorous. Trying to keep a fast-growing business alive when revenues are still small and you are funding it organically can be frustrating. Every day brings new challenges. Things you survive by telling […]

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As you many have noticed, I recently launched a new religion which I’m calling “LOTU”, the Laws Of The Universe. If you missed that news, read this. On January 11, 2007, I held the very first church meeting of LOTU. As befits a 21st century religion, I held it in Second Life at TPN HQ. […]

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Duncan Riley, TechCrunch writer, entrepreneur, and host of TPN’s On The Pod, has been nominated in the Performancing Awards 2007. Give him your vote! The Best Blog Podcast – Performancing Awards 2007 Reader’s Choice Poll | Performancing.com Blogged with Flock

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Today I chat with Bronwen Clune, Founder and CEO of Norg Media, an independent Australian media company that allows anyone to contribute to the news as a Cit J (citizen journalist). We talk about her vision for Norg (which stands for “news organisation”), how the media landscape is changing, and about being a female entrepreneur […]

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The first show of 2008! My guest today is local Yarraville boy Steve Sammartino, founder of Rentoid.com. I love Steve’s approach to his business and his entrepreneurial spirit in general. He came around to Casa del Reilly this morning to talk about the Rentoid site, why he left his big income corporate marketing job and […]

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Last month I recorded a couple of pilot episodes of a new podcast series where I walk around Melbourne with one of the City of Melbourne’s “greeters”, Jill. This is a project cooked up between myself, Tourism Victoria and the City of Melbourne. We’ve recorded two pilots and I’d really appreciate it if a few […]

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There are a couple of stories about podcasting in Australia in The Age today. I chatted with both journalists at length over the last month for the stories but ended up with two lines out of a 2+ page story. Go figure. All of my journo and ex-journo friends (including Mrs R) this morning counseled […]

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Aussie Twitterati jjprojects (aka John Johnstone) joins me today to talk about my latest project Twittories and Twitter in general. Check out JJ’s website or add him to your Twitter if you haven’t already! The track for today is: The track on this episode is: Ween “Your Party” (mp3) from “La Cucaracha” (Rounder Records) Buy […]

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As many of you will know, blogger Marc Orchant died today from a cardiac infraction he suffered while working in his home office last week. Marc was one of the earliest hosts on TPN and a very early guest on G’Day World back in Feb 2005. A few weeks after that I got to hang […]

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The Age of TPN’s Audience Originally uploaded by cameronreilly From our 2007 survey. I’m rather surprised at how old you all are. I wonder how much of this is a reflection of our content versus the general age of podcast listeners?

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We had a massive debate at TPN HQ last night (until my internet access dropped out at midnight and didn’t return) about the subject of free will which was kicked off in a massive twitter debate during the day. My central postulate was this: if every decision you have is a thought: and if a […]

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I listened to a great podcast today. Episode #73 of the Skeptoid podcast. It’s called “Logical Fallacies”. I highly recommend it. If you’ve ever had a conversation with anyone about their supernatural or pseudoscientific beliefs, you’ve almost certainly been slapped in the face with a logical fallacy or two. Non-scientific belief systems cannot be defended […]

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As you know, I’m trying to figure out how I can make the world a better place. Today I had a chat with Richard Giles about some of the recent attempts I’ve made to volunteer for organisations like LifeLine and Big Brother Big Sister, my vision of a 21st century geek version of Rotary, and […]

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Yesterday, November 26, was the third anniversary of G’Day World and Australian podcasting. What started off as an experiment to see how to record two Skype calls turned into a full-time job. Check out the first show here. I hope that’s a lesson to all the kids out there. If an idiot like me can […]

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Note: I just realized I introduce this show as #302 when it’s actually #303. Meh. As you may know, I’ve recently become slightly obsessed about Ned Kelly. While I’ve been interested in the subject for several years, since I realized during a trip to Glenrowan in 2004 that I didn’t know much of the story, […]

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Well this is the first real show of Season 4 of the G’Day World odyssey with the new focus on answering the question “how can I make the world a better place?” I’m very lucky to have a big hitter like Dr John Demartini back on the show to kick off the new season. Before […]

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Russell Buckley from MobHappy, who I respect a lot and who has always provided great, brutal feedback when required, emailed me this morning slapping me around the head regarding a couple of issues I want to air here because I think they deserve a broader forum for discussion, as they touch upon issues I haven’t […]

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Before I move into the “making the world a better place” motif for Season 04 of G’Day World, I wanted to do a show about my recent experiences of migrating from Windows to a Mac. Yes – hell has finally frozen over and I’ve bought a Mac. As some of you (those who read my […]

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Late last week I was invited onto Mark Jones’ “The Scoop” podcast to talk about Second Life with The Markster himself, as well as Lisa Romano, Project Manager, Strategic Development, ABC INNOVATION, Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Gary Hayes, head of MUVE development, The Project Factory. It was an enjoyable chat and I hope you enjoy […]

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Stan Relihan had me back on his very popular Connections podcast today to discuss the results of our Digg contest as well as discuss his learnings from his first couple of months podcasting. We talk about LinkedIn, Twitter, and how to use podcasting to build your personal brand.

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Well folks, here we are, 300 episodes and 3 years in, and I’m just getting warmed up! However, with a new year of G’Day World comes a new format, a new topic and a new question which demands The Cam’s attention – what are you doing on a daily basis to make the world a […]

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Well as I sit in my hotel room after spending a couple of days with some of WA’s digerati (I say WA instead of Perth because Duncan Riley lives a few hours away) as well as some ring-ins from the Eastern states such as Nick Hodge, Stilgherrian and Paul Montgomery, as well as Adam and […]

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The other night I caught up with Scouta founder and former TPN’r Richard Giles and Microsoft’s local professional nice guy blogger/podcaster Nick Hodge for a chat about the upcoming Australian federal election and was appalled to hear how they both intend voting. Geeks have a responsibility to lead. You’re a smart bunch. You are educated […]

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… for the copy of “Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East” which I received today as a belated birthday gift! Thanks for the cheesy gift wrapping mate! Made it all the more fun to open! I’m really looking forward to reading this – I heard a podcast […]

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Last week I received a large envelope in the mail from the International Napoleonic Society, an organisation I’ve had nothing at all to do with outside of the fact that their Vice-President J. David Markham has been my co-host on the Napoleon podcast for the last couple of years. Inside the envelope was a folder […]

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Katherine Cunningham, my guest on today’s show, runs menstrual education for woman and joins me today to talk about how our attitude towards female sexuality ended up so screwed up in Western society. I’m fascinated with the power that women have over men but which most don’t seem to realize. I blame the Christians for […]

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Tonight Jono and Beti (host of TPN’s Health and Fitness Podcast) celebrated the opening of their new store XERO, a very cool tech store at 106 Elgin Street, Carlton. I presented them with a very wonderful opening night gift – an original copy of Heino‘s ” Halli, hallo, wir fahren” album. Now… I think everyone […]

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It’s my birthday and I’m taking the liberty of chatting to you about some of the things that I think about a lot lately – the lack of leadership in our world today and the future of the human race. Where are the leaders? Have the baby boomers driven the planet into the ground, beyond […]

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Dan Patterson is the host of the excellent Creepy Sleepy podcast and is a UN Correspondent. Dan and I talk about the pros and cons of social welfare in capitalist countries like the USA and Australia as well as some of the problems with the UN model. Become part of the G’Day World conversation. TPN […]

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Speaking of Brett Welch reminds me… he recently interviewed me for his podcast. Check it out (link below). I was also interviewed yesterday by Leon and Garry at The Age which will come out in the SMH/AGE business section soon as well as on their TPN Take Two podcast (taketwo.thepodcastnetwork.com). clipped from businesscatalyst.com Media 2.0 […]

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The big press release went out today announcing that John Cleese (yes, THAT John Cleese) will be producing a new series of podcasts which will be hosted on TPN. Read the full announcement here. What a coup, huh? This is something we’ve been working on for a year. Well, actually, Dean from Funk first started […]

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I recently caught up with Vanessa Stacy, aka Vanessa the Undressa, aka the Geek Stripper, aka GoldCoastGirl on Twitter, for lunch and a chat about how she uses Web 2.0 tools like MySpace, YouTube and Twitter to market her business – which just happens to be stripping. It was a fascinating discussion for me because […]

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Garry Barker has been a journalist for over 50 years and in that time has had a range of amazing experiences, some of which he shares with me in today’s show. These include working for Rupert Murdoch in 1955, meeting Che Guevara and Fidel Castro in 1962, working in the White House Press Corp during […]

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I heard about this on a recent episode of the Skeptics Guide To The Universe Podcast. Some guys calling themselves the Extant Dodos have been taking videos posted to the web by the Creation Science Evangelism organisation which “prove” creationist theories and then debunk them, putting the re-edited videos on YouTube. The CSE people don’t […]

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Ben Barren, CEO of Feedcorp, joins me on this show to interview author Adam Shand. As people in Melbourne will be very aware, in the last decade there was a series of high profile retributional killings involving various underworld groups that cost the lives of at least 28 criminal figures. Adam Shand, a journalist who […]

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My final interview from the X | Media | Labs event I attended last month. This one is with Jason Roks, currently acting as a Technical Advisor with The Real News, a non-profit news and documentary network focused on providing independent and uncompromising journalism. Jason talks to me about the vision for The Real News […]

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IN G’Day World #291 I feature three interviews I have completed over recent weeks with senior executives from three of Australia’s top ISPs: Ravi Bhatia, CEO of Primus Simon Hackett, CEO of Internode Ben Dunscombe, Regulatory Affairs Manager, Netspace In a way, these interviews are a response to the show I did with Dr Phil […]

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My guest today is one of Australia’s highest profile barristers and human rights advocates – Julian Burnside QC. He is also the current President of Liberty Victoria, also known as the Victorian Council for Civil Liberties Inc, an independent non-government organisation committed to the defence and extension of human rights and civil liberties. I have […]

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Today my guest is Nick Johnstone, science teacher and education innovator. Nick and I go WAY WAY BACK. This photo is from our last day of high school in 1987. Anyway, these days Nick is Head of Science at St Lukes School in Bundaberg and he’s talking to me tonight about one of his favourite […]

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Sigh… here we go again… it seems the people from 2Clix haven’t attended any of my talks over the last couple of years where I have explained why jumping the gun and suing a blog/forum/podcast for a couple of negative comments about your company/product/people is just plain STUPID. I heard about this via Daniel Bowen’s […]

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My guest today, to talk Australian politics and new media, is Matt Marks. We discuss KEVIN07, what’s wrong with the Liberal Party, and why political parties in this country need to engage with new media. Matt has recently written a chapter for the Crikey Guide to the 2007 Federal Election on the campaigning process and […]

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Today I’ve been testing a FREE product called CamStudio (no, this isn’t a product named after me… would be cool though if it was). Many of you might have heard of a product called Camtasia. Well CamStudio is just like that – only free. From their website: CamStudio is able to record all screen and […]

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Another video from X | Media | Labs (yes, Caroline and Melissa, I’m getting there)… this one is with the gentleman I prefer to think of as Mr Suw – Kevin Anderson. Kevin is the Blog Editor at The Guardian in the UK. In this short video (my tape ran out at the end of […]

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My guests today are the guys behind Australian Anthill magazine – Publisher and Editor-In-Chief James Tuckerman and Editor Paul Ryan. I chat with James about how he walked out of a well-paid job in PR to start the magazine when he was 26 (or was that 27? 28?), the early years, where they are today […]

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While recording a new episode of the Advaita Show podcast today, my co-host Steve mentioned the recent book that has been published with Mother Teresa’s letters to her spiritual mentors which point out what a big bloody faker she was. Check it: Yet no sooner did Teresa start her work in the slums of Calcutta […]

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Westpac is an Australian bank. One of the big ones. They made $3 billion profit last year. Their CEO David Morgan has a compensation package estimated at $14 million this year. They recently hired ex-Telstra CIO Vish Padmanabhan. And yet their website has been down all day. And they kept me on hold for over […]

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Another video from the X | MEDIA | LABS event. This one is with Liz Heller, CEO of US-based marketing company BUZZTONE. We chatted about the idea of “buzz” marketing and the future of the music business (prior to starting Buzztone, Liz was an Executive Vice President at Capital Records). For those of you on […]

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Ewan Spence (TPN’s Rock Show, PSP Show, Edinburgh Festival Show… have I forgotten any??) spoke on a panel in Edinburgh yesterday about the future of TV. Read Kevin Anderson’s coverage for The Guardian (and watch for my video podcast inteview with Kevin that’ll be up here in a few days). Read Ewan’s statements in the […]

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Andrew Sayer pointed to this terrific Twitter search engine this morning: Terraminds. Let’s say you wanted to know what people on Twitter had been saying about… Telstra, for example. tehdeejay Ok twitteroos, answer me this: is it negligence for an IT company to recommend Telstra retail products for all their business clients? 12 hours ago […]

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Richard, Ian and Garth joined me last night to discuss porn filters, Australian values, strip clubs and other rubbish. If you think you can sense heavy editing in this show… you are right. I won’t say why. Become part of the G’Day World conversation. I’ve created a couple of groups inside Second Life. You can […]

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Hunter and Taylor, my 6 year-old twin boys, join me tonight for what might become the pilot edition of their own podcast. It’s something we’ve been talking about for ages and, based on their excitement tonight after we wrapped, I think they are about ready. This is a show designed for kids aged 5 – […]

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A spontaneous Twitter lunch happened in Melbourne yesterday between myself, Nick Hodge, Garth Kidd, Robin Frousheger, and Andrew Barnett. The lunch came together over Twitter when Nick, who is based in Sydney, mentioned he was having a coffee at a particular Melbourne Starbucks. Robin, Andrew and I all saw the message and invited ourselves to […]

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Just back from lunch with Dr Peter Ellyard and a spontaneous Twitter meetup lunch with Nick Hodge, Garth Kidd, Andew Barnett and Froosh (you’ll hear the show we recorded tomorrow), and I see Chris Pirillo has posted up a podcast of the live video show we did yesterday! Here it is: Chris | Live Tech […]

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Ryan Trainor started his first company, a Retail Security firm in 1997 at the age of 23. After three years he was servicing most major retailers in Australia, including Coles Myer and Woolworths, employing hundreds of staff and regarded as a key innovator of change in the security personnel industry. He sold to a large […]

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Jack Marx wrote a popular blog called THE DAILY TRUTH for Fairfax, a large, old and very, very tired Australian media organization. In 2006 he won a very prestigious Australian media award (a Walkley) for one of his posts. However the paper sacked him a couple of days ago (on his birthday no less) for […]

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Shekhar Kapur, born 6 December 1945 in British India (in an area which became part of Pakistan) is a renowned filmmaker from India. His works include Elizabeth (1998), Bandit Queen (1994) and his new film, Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). He writes a very revealing blog (link) and is trying to raise $1 Billion for […]

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On August 10 2007 I attended the X|Media|Lab in Melbourne and had the opportunity to interview a number of the key speakers. I’ll be putting those interviews up over the next week. This first one is with Brendan Harkin, the Founder and Director of X|Media|Lab. Brendan founded X|Media|Lab in June 2003. X|Media|Lab is the internationally […]

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A few months ago I was on the phone to a friend of mine and said “The questions you ask yourself define your reality”. My friend then introduced me to the work of Dr John Demartini. A few things surprised me when I read the information on his website. The first was that he actually […]

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Duncan Riley, founder of “The Blog Herald, co-founder of b5 Media, and presently a writer for TechCrunch, joins TPN today with his new podcast “On The Pod“. On The Pod features guests that might otherwise not have a high profile yet have something interesting to say. The topics vary from Web 2.0, through to Tech […]

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I just discovered Mark Jones is going a podcast for AFR. Good stuff mate, looking forward to listening to it. Thanks for keeping it a secret!

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Today TPN is pleased to launch “The Better World Show“, hosted by Scott Sherman (from TPN’s hugely successful Digital Photography Show) and Cameron Reilly (host of TPN’s G’Day World, Napoleon 101 and CEO of The Podcast Network). You work hard, you raise your family, and you try to do the best you can. But in […]

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So this morning I went to MSY, a wonderful el-cheapo PC components store, to get a new scanner and miniSD card. I arrived 30 minutes early, was sitting in my car listening to Ewan’s Edinburgh Fringe podcast, and twitted that I was sitting out the front of MSY in Pascoe Vale. Who should come walking […]

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My guest today is a G’Day World listener from Paris, Bernard Malige. Bernard, who works as an engineer with Renault, helped me better understand the French system of taxation and social services. If you’ve seen Michael Moore’s latest film SICKO, you already know that in France, pretty much all health care (except high end elective […]

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Richard Giles and I chat about some things that have been on my mind lately, including: How Christians who justify Yahweh’s kill count in the Old Testament just prove my point that they are crazy and dangerous. Some history on the Bhagavad Gita WIRED: How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life […]

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Aaron Heath sent me this image: Reminds me of the Point of Inquiry podcast I listened to this morning with Peter Irons. Irons is “a noted constitutional scholar, historian, and lawyer, he is the author of the bestselling May It Please the Court; The Battle for the Constitution; War Powers: How the Imperial Presidency Hijacked […]

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Geoffrey Bowll is the MD of Melbourne-based ad agency Starship. I chatted with him yesterday about the demise of TV, the rise of the creative class and the fragmentation of media. It was great to find someone in the Aussie advertising industry who is excited about social networking, Second Life and Twitter. Speaking of which… […]

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Rodney Brooks is Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also Chief Technical Officer and sits on the Board of iRobot Corp. From July 1, 2003 until June 30, 2007, he was director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; prior to that, he was director of the […]

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Today I had the fortune to chat with another living legend – Vernor Vinge (pronounced “vin-jee” as in, he explained off air, “stingy”). While VV may not have the public profile of a William Gibson or Neal Stephenson, in geek circles no SF author carries more respect. Why is it so? In 1981 Vernor wrote […]

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Richard Giles joins me tonight to talk about a bunch of questions that have been on my mind: Are we all suffering from Affluenza? Are the Government, the advertising industry, and the mass media all conspiring to make us feel broke and scared? Does the car I drive define me as a human being? Do […]

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What does driving a Prius say about you? As a person? What a load of crap. You aren’t defined as a person by what clothes you wear or by the car you drive. You are defined by what you do. Are you contributing something every day towards the betterment of the human race? Or are […]

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A few months ago I had the opportunity to chat with Tony Smith, CEO of new online accommodation booking startup, Roamfree. I was asked to keep the interview on hold until the site launched, which was yesterday. Tony is a former Sydney Swans ruckman who started marketing Schoolies holidays when he was in his early […]

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Just went to pay the speeding fine I got leaving Bundaberg and discovered there are no online payment options?! Can’t even pay it over the phone?!? Have to send a cheque. By post. Wow. Queensland. Amazing. ** I’m fascinated this morning watching the shit-fight between Arrington and Furrier/Scoble over Podtech. Having met all three of […]

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The word on Twitter is that the fine folks at Telstra have banned Facebook on the corporate network. This would be a retarded move for ANY company, let alone a company that is trying to position itself as a company that “gets” online. It reminds me of a question someone asked me at the recent […]

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Today Paul Montgomery from Fan Footy joins me to talk about the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, IMF and UN Security Council. I’ve just finished reading George Monbiot’s 2003 book “The Age Of Consent” and it’s made me want to learn more about how these international bodies operate. Monty and I also chat about […]

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TPN’s latest podcast is Take Two – interviews with Australian business leaders by Leon Gettler, management and economics commentator for The Age newspaper in Melbourne Australia, and technology editor Garry Barker. Check out their interview with Justin Milne, CEO of Telstra BigPond. ** Ah… the clean country air of Bundaberg…. **** David Chappelle is Black […]

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John Butterworth is the CEO of AIMIA, the Australia Interactive Media Industry Association. I chatted with him recently about the state of the industry and tried to figure out who they seem to be so top-heavy, that is, involved more with big companies like Telstra and Sensis, rather than supporting the smaller, innovative companies. John […]

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Chris Pirillo needs no introduction. Everyone knows him as an ubergeek, the founder and maintainer of Lockergnome, former host of TechTV’s “Call for Help”, and, along with his wife Ponzi, the host of Gnomedex, the technology conference made for geeks. I always think of him as the guy with the most infectious laugh I’ve ever […]

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Canned coffee vending machines Originally uploaded by seanbonner Sean Bonner is posting great photos from Japan including this one of a canned coffee vending machine. Mmmmm. And I thought Nescafe sucked! ** On The Cranky Middle Manager Episode 101, Wayne interviewed guest Anita Bruzzese, a workplace columnist who’s “On the Job is syndicated in dozens […]

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A great example of Christian tolerance in the US senate. ** Chris Pirillo is getting up to speed on the problems inherent in the American system of democracy and capitalism. Interesting to see someone like Chris speaking out about this. Watch the first ten minutes of the video he’s linked to. Chris has just agreed […]

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My guest today is Chris Summerfield. Chris works for Drug Arm WA, writes an intelligent blog called “A Churchless Faith” and recently took me up on my challenge to Christians to answer the question “What would it take for you to become an atheist?”. We talk a little about the striking similarities between the key […]

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Today it’s again my pleasure to catch up with Dr Peter Ellyard, Australia’s leading futurist. We caught up for lunch in South Yarra today and chatted about why visionaries often feel frustrated with their own progress, the need for a world democracy and how shareholders can use their voting power to effect political change. G’DAY […]

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Today my guests are Andrew and Kevin – an American and a Brit living in Japan – to talk about some current conspiracy theories, including hundreds of “concentration camps” being built in the USA to house ‘unlawful enemy combatants’ and Rex 84, “a plan by the United States federal government to test their ability to […]

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Frank Arrigo, the guy who runs Microsoft’s Developer Platform Evangelism team in Australia, a 16 year veteran of Microsoft, joins me tonight to publicly break his big news – he’s moving to Seattle to direct Microsoft’s DPE field strategy worldwide. The quality of the Skype call is terrible so we don’t talk long, but we […]

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Wendell Wallach is a lecturer and consultant at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics where he chairs the working research group on Technology and Ethics, leads a seminar for bioethics interns, and functions as a senior coordinator for other working groups and projects. He has lectured worldwide, published many articles, and is presently writing two […]

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J. Storrs Hall is an independent scientist and author. His most recent book is Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine, and he was the founding Chief Scientist of Nanorex, Inc, which is developing a CAD system for nanomechanical engineering, is currently a member of Nanorex’ Scientific Advisory Board, and is a Research Fellow […]

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Richard M. Giles of Scouta joins me again today to discuss a list of bothersome subjects, including (but not limited to, user’s experience my vary, please refer to terms and conditions before you set any expectations and refer all complaints to your local member… pffft, I said “member”): Scouta’s recent DMCA take-down notice What’s the […]

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Professor Michael Georgeff is the Director of the e-Health research unit at Monash University. He has over 25 years experience in software innovation and bringing these technologies to market. In the 1980s, Georgeff was Program Director in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute). He was also a member of Stanford […]

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If you aren’t on Twitter yet, you are probably wondering what it’s all about. It’s kind of like a steady feed of… stuff. Stream of consciousness from your friends. What they are doing, thinking about, reading, watching, etc. Here’s my last couple of days of twitters e.g. the things I’ve written. Inane? Or addictive? I […]

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Tonight, my lil sister Anita and I went to see the first ever anywhere in the world public screening (well at least that’s what we were told) of the new TRANSFORMERS movie! Here is our review. Become part of the G’Day World conversation. If you’re a member of Facebook, you can ADD ME AS A […]

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At Microsoft’s remix event in Melbourne yesterday I caught up with Brian Goldfarb, Group Product manager, UX Platform and Tools Strategy, Microsoft Corp. Brian’s group is responsible for Silverlight , their new product for developing rich content delivered through a browser, and Popfly, their Yahoo Pipes-like mashup creator. To check out the “Top Banana” demo […]

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Jamais Cascio is a San Francisco Bay Area-based writer and ethical futurist. He chatted with me last week about the “Participatory panopticon“, Sousveillance, and why everyone should take “democratic transhumanism” very, very seriously. Read Jamais’ blog to find out more about his views on the preferred future. You can also catch Jamais at the Singularity […]

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Ben Wilkoff, host of TPN’s Education Transformation podcast, has just been declared the winner of the first Totally Wired Teacher Award which will be presented at the Ypulse Mashup in San Francisco! Read his post about the award. Congrats from all of us at TPN dude!

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I’m sure many of you read on Techmeme over the weekend about the whole “People Ready” fiasco involving FM Media and their client bloggers that started with this Valleywag post. One of the bloggers involved was Richard McManus who writes the popular ReadWriteWeb blog. I happened to be having dinner (ironically hosted by Microsoft, the […]

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A very special guest (shhhh can’t tell you who) joins me on today’s show to chat about the JFK bomb plot, Rupert Murdoch’s attempts to buy the world, divorce, Facebook, asking the right questions, Apple TV, the Australian government’s new broadband plan which is a bitchslap to our friends at Telstra, Marc Andreesen’s blog, setting […]

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Steve Omohundro is a computer scientist and President of Self-Aware Systems in Palo Alto, California. Since April 2007 he is a research advisor to the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. We chatted this morning about his timeline and vision for the possible ways that artificial intelligence will emerge and how he believes self-aware machines will […]

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My guest today, from a delightful little café in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, is Peter Styles, co-founder of RedBubble, an online art gallery and creative community that allows artists to display, sell and distribute their works. Peter and I talk about the site, their business model, ambitions, his background, running a start-up in Australia […]

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I’m very pleased to be able to chat with Adrian Giles from Hitwise on the show today. Back in 1997, Adrian and his partner started the company age 23 and they recently sold it to Experian for US$240 million. We talk about the beginnings of the company, the business model, the challenges with raising VC […]

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Ryan Sholin wrote this post “10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head” on June 2 about the future of newspapers. It ended up on the front page of TechMeme and obviously struck a chord with lots of people. So I invited him onto the show to explore […]

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Reggie Finley Sr is “The Infidel Guy“. Since 1998 he has been hosting his own radio show/podcast about atheist thinking. We catch up to talk about podcasting business models, Atlanta, atheism, rational thinking, hip-hop, WMD, etc. If you want to add another great atheist podcast to your list, make sure you check out The Infidel […]

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MODM 2 was last week and I think most folks had a great time. I certainly did. I think we had about 50 people there, which is pretty good for our first real event. Thanks again to our sponsors Eight Black and to our guest speaker Dr Peter Ellyard. Here’s a video of Peter’s talk […]

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I had the chance today to spend 15 minutes with Will Arnett, one of the stars of the new Will Ferrell/Jon Heder comedy “Blades Of Glory“. I caught the film earlier this week and it’s very funny, a lot funnier than I expected it to be actually. Definitely gets higher marks than Talladega Nights. Arnett […]

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I’m very pleased to have author Staton Rabin back on the show. She first joined us in February 2005 on episode #18! She joins me today to talk about her new book: It’s a fascinating period of history that I know very little about: Rasputin, the February Revolution, Anastasia, Alexei, etc. As I said to […]

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Eliezer Yudkowsky (recently heard on G’Day World #238) is back. This time we’re having a discussion about another one of Eli’s favourite memes – rationality. We had originally planned to discuss his “Twelve Virtues of Rationality” but got side tracked into why “faith” and “religion” are irrational and dangerous and… well… we never really got […]

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For years now I’ve had people ask me about podcast transcriptions. So I’m pleased to announce that TPN has just started working with UK company Pods In Print to provide transcripts for some of our shows. We’re going to start with a couple to test out demand – G’Day World, Digital Photography Show and Napoleon. […]

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… I learned from Wikipedia and The Podcast Network. You know you want one. Buy one now.

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Another show with the brilliant Dr Peter Ellyard today. I popped around to his place yesterday without any planned agenda and, as I had hoped, we ended up talking about a whole range of interesting things, including: What entrepreneurs dream about Peter’s introduction to the operas of maestro Richard Wagner How globalism and tribalism are […]

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Here’s the show you’ve been waiting for folks! What can I say about Vint Cerf? One of the founding fathers of the Internet. Winner of the Turing Award. VP and Chief Internet Evangelist of Google, Inc. Chairman of ICANN. Trekkie. He’s in Facebook. By the way, is it just me or does his cover photo […]

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My guest today (from Cafe Panetta in South Melbourne – try the Three Crows merlot, truly wonderful) on show n-1 (the last show before I have Vint Cerf on) is Gary aka “Wiz Nordberg” Wisniewski, Founder/CEO of SLCN, the Second Life Cable Network, “a professional video network designed to expand the in-world audience as well […]

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80% of Podcast Listeners Seek Out Products They Hear About (from SearchEngineWatch) As reported in the Guardian, a survey of over 300 U.K. podcast users done by Chrysalis Radio’s download division found that 80% of those surveyed indicated that they would be more likely to seek out products and services after hearing about them. Before […]

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Rod Adams, host of TPN’s Atomic Show, joins me today to talk about nuclear energy vs solar and religion vs science. Don’t forget to make use of my new comments line – +613 9016 9699. If you enjoyed this podcast, make sure you don’t miss future episodes by subscribing to our feed and leave us […]

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Today I ask you – what is it going to take for you to get off the bench? And wish my dead dad a happy 58th birthday. Here’s a link to the post on The Age and here’s a link to the J. Paul Getty book I mention.

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Forgive me Father – it’s been at least two weeks since my last podcast. I figured you guys needed some time to digest my last run of shows. Ready for more yet? Another show on the coming of the technological singularity today. My guest is Eliezer Yudkowsky, co-founder and research fellow at the Singularity Institute […]

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My guest on this episode is Dr Benjamin Goertzel Ph.D, CEO and CSO of Novamente LLC, a privately held AI software company. He explains Novamente’s approach to AGI (artificial general intelligence) and their plans to release some of their early products into the Second Life universe. We also talk about: the history and challenges of […]

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Wow. I just had one of those whooooooo moments, when the world spins. I was reading Brook Turner’s article on George Miller from last week’s Australian Financial Review magazine. Anyone who knows me well knows how much I admire George. MAD MAX and MAD MAX II are obviously the greatest Australian films ever made and […]

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Once upon a time, in an internet far, far away, a young boy had a dream, that one day the internet would deliver a state of perfect information which would provide the basis for perfect competition. That is, assuming that all agents are rational and have perfect information, they will choose the best products, and […]

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My guest today is Campbell Sallabank, CEO of LinkMe, a Melbourne-based social networking site that allows you to upload your resume and market yourself to thousands of recruiters and employers who are looking for staff. Don’t forget to make use of my new comments line – +613 9016 9699. If you enjoyed this podcast, make […]

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Happy ANZAC Day to all you Aussies! My guests today are Dr Pamela Gay and Fraser Cain from the very excellent Astronomy Cast! They agreed (a decision they may now regret) to try to answer some of my insanely big questions about the Universe. Questions such as: – what is the fabric of spacetime? – […]

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I’m often criticized by those who know me best as being an incurable skeptic. So it’s my pleasure today to have as my guest Barry Williams, an Executive Officer with the Australian Skeptics and editor of their quarterly journal. Barry and I talk about the WHY and HOW of being a good skeptic. You can […]

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No guest today, just a bit of a chat about: Robert Rodriguez’s cooking show on the Sin City Recut DVD this report that less than 7% of Australians believe cosmetics advertising a review of “The Receipt” by Will Adamsdale and Chris Branch, currently showing in the Melbourne Comedy Festival ExxonSecrets, a site that helps you […]

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It struck me last night while reading Brian Greene’s tremendous “The Elegant Universe” that if religious types were at all genuine, they would be digging through books on physics and chemistry like they were the new word of God. I’ve read the explanation of the double-slit experiment time after time over the last 20 years […]

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A wonderful show today. I get to talk to Brian Dalton, the comic genius behind one of the hottest video podcasts on the web today – MR. DEITY. Brian talks about how the idea for the show came to him, his background as a “ForeMon” (a lapsed Mormon), his careers as a graphic artist, musician […]

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David Silverman has been an Atheist since he was six years old. He is an accomplished inventor with seventy-four patents, holds degrees in Marketing and Computer Science, and is the National Spokesperson for American Atheists, an organization in the U.S. dedicated to defending the civil liberties of atheists and advocating for the complete separation of […]

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Something a little different tonight… I was chatting with Benjamin Wilkoff tonight about doing a show for TPN about the intersection of education and Web2.0. We chatted about the challenge that the education system (and educators) seems to be having with adopting Web2.0 technologies rapidly into the classroom and curriculum as learning tools. I also […]

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Jon-Michail is Founder and CEO of Image Group International and the Institute for Image Management; an Australian based multi-million dollar corporate image advisory and coaching organisation. In this podcast he will be sharing his insights on building your personal brand. Check out episode one – “Life Branding”.

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Did you ever meet someone so positive, so UP!!!, that just talking to them makes you want to lie down and rest? Jason Womack is one of those guys. Jason is a keynote speaker, professional educator and executive coach. After working for The David Allen Company (Getting Things Done) for seven years as a senior […]

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Well I’ve had some pretty big guests on this show over the years – Noam Chomsky, Ray Kurzweil, politicians, businessmen – but today is the biggest guest so far. She’s the PodMother. The Matriarch of TPN. She goes by the pseudonym of Gran Jan but I know her as “mum”. Ladies and Gentlemen – my […]

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Tim Burrowes is the Group Editor at Reed Business who publish B&T Magazine, Australia’s largest advertising rag, and the new sister publication “Digital Media” which comes out here April 5. This is the one with the “40 Biggest Players of Australia’s Digital Age” article that Brad Howarth wrote. Tim and I chat about the launch […]

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Greydon Square is the future of hiphop. Raised an orphan by Seventh Day Adventists in Compton, Los Angeles, he did time at 17 for possession of a weapon, then joined the US Army for a tour of Iraq, where he did bible group in his spare time with a view to becoming a minister after […]

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Today I’m running a comment from Ken Kennedy (aka Kenzoid), long time listener, who is commenting on the recent religious stuff. Ken’s got his own blog and podcast, which you can check out here. Thanks for the comment Ken! Then I talk about 2012. Is it going to be the end of the world??? I’ve […]

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According to YourMovies, GRINDHOUSE opens in this country on 31 May 2007! Five weeks after the US (where it opens April 6). I’ve been to the opening night of every QT flick in this country since Dogs, and I’m damned if I’m going to miss this one. Who else wants to come to the opening […]

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Russell Buckley is a pommy (did you know that pommy is most-likely a contraction of the word “pomegranate”?) living in Munich and, as CEO of AdMob, one of the world’s leaders in the field of mobile marketing. When he recently criticized some of the ads running on this show, I decided to get him on […]

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UPDATE: Stan now has his own show on TPN! Check out The Connections Show! My guest today is Stan Relihan, Australia’s #1 LinkedIn’r. Stan is a recruiter in Sydney and has over 5000 connections in his LinkedIn profile (including me). Stan tells me why he thinks LinkedIn is a valuable business tool for everyone, not […]

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After I did show #217 last week, I got an email from today’s guest – CJ Fearnley, Executive Director of the Synergetics Collaborative, a non-for-profit organization that brings people together to build on the work of the late, great Buckminster Fuller. CJ complimented me on the show and we agreed it would be fun to […]

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Congrats to Jeff and Paul, hosts of the recently re-launched AFL podcast on TPN. It’s cracked the iTunes Australian top rankings! I think this is the highest any TPN podcast has ranked in iTunes, so I’m pretty proud of the boys. And a special shout-out to Molly Malone who introduced me to the boys in […]

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Check out my latest movie show here. Help me justify my tax returns.

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A bit of a private chat tonight between me and… you. There’s a couple of things I wanted to get off my chest. So… no guests, no interviews, no co-host… just a quiet chat. I do chat a bit about Buckminster Fuller’s biography, about Zengotita’s book “Mediated”, and about being me. If you enjoyed this […]

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Despite Scott’s slagging of Vista today, I like it – especially now that I’ve got 2GB RAM. Don’t tell anyone. I’d hate for Jeff Putt to hear about it. Okay so, as I said on the show the other night, it isn’t the major new paradigm that was promised over those long, long, Longhorn years. […]

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With the success of The Napoleon Podcast on TPN, I’d really like to develop a whole catalogue of educational podcasts. It strikes me that there are probably tens of thousands of retired educators around the world who have knowledge, educational skills, and time. With podcasting they can each continue to make a significant contribution to […]

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My guest today is Elizabeth Godo, a media studies student from Toronto, who has written an excellent analysis of the US media’s treatment of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Elizabeth recently went through all of the New York Times’ coverage of Chávez over several years and picked out the recurring labels used to describe him: “ex-coup […]

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Big shout outs tonight to my old buddy Shane Williamson for chucking some cash into the Shave thing. Thanks mate. Oh and thanks Jesus. Shane recently sold a copy of the infamous Microsoft Bob on ebay for the princely sum of $15.50. I’ve often thought about when the time will be right for me to […]

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Tonight in the Bitchcast, I’m joined by Jodie Miners and Tony Goodson. We bitched about a bunch of things, including (but not limited to): Why HP don’t have Windows Vista drivers for the HP Photosmart 7150 How hard it is to move your iTunes library from your old PC to your new PC Why Office […]

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My co-host, the right honourable J. David Markham, did an interview recently with a journalist from USA TODAY and as a result our little show got a small mention in a bigger article about podcasting. Of course, they named the show incorrectly and didn’t link to it in the online article, but it’s still nice […]

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Robert M. Price is professor of theology and scriptural studies at Coleman Theological Seminary and professor of Biblical Criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute. He was also featured in THE GOD WHO WASN’T THERE. DJ Grothe had Robert on the Point of Inquiry podcast last week and he totally demolishes the historical argument for […]

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The last good boss I had at Microsoft, Christophe DuMonet, left there just before I did (causing me all sorts of political problems but, in retrospect, I’m glad he did) and spent a few years as General Manager of a software division of Sydney-based software company Unique Software. He’s now taken a new position as […]

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On episode 214 I have Rich and Gra from Scouta on the line. As most of you will know, Rich and Gra used to be podcasters on TPN before they selfishly and wantonly deserted me to run their own start-up. Do I hold a grudge? Do I ever. I’m like Tony Montana. Don’t cross me. […]

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Title: EPISODE3 – G’day World Bitch Description: This is the chance for listeners of the G’Day World podcast (Australia’s #1 podcast, www.gdayworld.com) to ring in and have a bitch. About the host (Cameron Reilly, CEO of The Podcast Network and all-round loudmouth), the show, or just things in general. Show is scheduled for 6am US […]

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I caught up again with Dr Peter Ellyard today for another enlightening and invigorating chat about where the world is heading. Every time Peter and I catch up it’s like sticking my fingers in a power socket. I come out of the time with him feeling inspired. Today we talk about: Buckminster Fuller’s last book […]

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Russell Buckley hates the GoDaddy ads that Jason Calacanis and I are running. I agree with Russell that we need to come up with better models for podcast ads. Playing the same ads on every show can get annoying. Radio plays the same ads over and over as well but, because they have so many […]

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Tonight is the first edition (if you don’t count a couple of false starts) of GDAY WORLD BITCH SESSION. Your chance to come on the show and bitch to me about anything you like. I’ll try to do one of these each week. You can bitch to me about stuff that’s been on the show […]

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Ewan Spence is podcasting his little highland heart out at SXSW (on TPN Tech Conf and now also at SXSW Baby) and he just did an interview with Harry Knowles, the legendary film nut behind Ain’t It Cool News! That’s awesome! I’ve been a fan of Harry’s for years and years. Well done Spencester!

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On episode 211 my guests are Dr Phil Burgess, Group Managing Director, Public Policy and Communication, Telstra and Garry Barker, Technology Editor at The Age. We spent an hour at Telstra’s Melbourne offices this morning discussing the state of broadband in Australia. Phil is often in the news (here are some recent stories) debating the […]

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Brian Flemming’s bio on his blog says “I make movies, I write plays, I blog.” You have to admire that kind of brevity. The main reason for chatting with Brian was to talk about his 2005 documentary “The God Who Wasn’t There” which he describes as “a feature-length documentary partly exploring what amounts to Christianity’s […]

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(This episode of G’Day World has been cross-posted from Podcasting APB) On this episode my guest is Dave Nelsen, CEO, TalkShoe. TalkShow is a service that allows podcasters to create very interactive shows with up to 400 live participants. For those of you who can’t read, look at the pretty picture: Dave and I chat […]

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So on Saturday I was standing in a newsagents in Melbourne, scanning the magazine racks while I was drinking a Coke during a break in my stencil art course, and I spot Australian PC Authority magazine’s cover story “The New Web – Create Your Own Podcasts, Blogs, Video”. So I flick through it to the […]

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My guests today are Dr Kris Klugman PhD and Bill Rowlings from Civil Liberties Australia. I invited them onto the show to help me understand what’s happening with a variety of civil liberty matters such as: David Hicks Dr Phillip Nitschke’s book Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock Banning of Muslim books Sedition and other “anti-terrorism” laws passed […]

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Mark Hunter, he of the Connery-smooth accent from TPN’s “Mellow Monday” podcast, has launched another podcast on TPN – The Playstation 3 Podcast! Subscribe in iTunes Grab the general subscription feed.

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I’m cranky as hell about the way the Christian Right is taking over this country. The leaders of both major political parties are kowtowing to them because they are mobilizing politically like never before, taking their cues from their US counterparts. The latest embarrassment for us as a free, democratic society is they way our […]

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I did a new Movie Show podcast today, reviewing “The Good Shepherd”, Robert De Niro’s latest directorial effort. Listen here.

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Even though I know less than zero about this thing they call “Aussie Rules”, I know it’s somehow important to my fellow countrymen. And that’s why I’m pleased to announce that, after a one year absence, the AFL Show returns to The Podcast Network. New hosts, Jeff and Paul, kicked off their custodianship of the […]

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Private equity is a broad term that refers to any type of equity investment in an asset in which the equity is not freely tradable on a public stock market. (wikipedia) One of the trends around the world at the moment is for private equity firms (commonly called “PE Firms”) to acquire publicly-listed companies, so […]

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J. J. C. “Jack” Smart is the Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University. Someone once said that if there was a Nobel Prize for Philosophy, he would have won it at least twice. He graciously invited me to lunch at the Monash Club (and insisted on picking up […]

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Dr Peter Ellyard is a Melbourne-based futurist, strategist, author and Chairman of the Preferred Futures Institute. He has worked for the United Nations, various international governments and NGOs, and is an incredibly popular speaker and strategic consultant to global corporations. We caught up today for a discussion about: the role of a futurist the rise […]

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I got an email a couple of days ago from Fabian Frei, a student at The University of St Gallen in Switzerland, who is writing his master’s thesis on innovation in the podcasting scene and wanted to chat to me about TPN, so of course I recorded tonight’s interview. If you enjoyed this podcast, make […]

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An interesting post on Andrew Sullivan’s blog recently from one of his readers who says: I am an atheist (who was once a Christian) and wanted to comment on your latest missive to Sam Harris. I would describe my own embrace of science and secular humanism as being motivated by a form of faith that […]

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Remember when radio made you laugh? I’m re-booting the Laugh Out Loud podcast to shamelessly exploit the rising amount of podsafe comedy appearing out there. Get yourself a few laughs for free! [audio:http://lol.thepodcastnetwork.com/audio/tpn_lol_20070219_003.mp3] DOWNLOAD AND SAVE The subscribe to future episodes of the Laugh Out Loud podcast, try one of the following: Subscribe in iTunes […]

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(re-posted from Podcasting APB) Today I talk to Brian Ibbott from the “Coverville” podcast. Brian has been podcasting since September 2004 and has a massive success on his hands with Coverville. He has been featured in publications such as BusinessWeek and Rolling Stone Magazine and was one of the podcasts featured on the front page […]

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Brian Shearer is the co-host of TPN’s latest podcast “Comic Review Weekly” and he’s a real life “comic book guy”. You can check out his work (with his partner Marty Blevins) at Gravyboy.com. Gravyboy is the story of a superhero who, instead of being given the power to control gravity, is, due to something of […]

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My Van Halen technorati feed picked up this post by A VC talking about Bob Lefsetz’s podcast. Lefsetz is a “music industry insider” who sounds like he stepped out of a Scorsese film. Yeah I know he’s Jewish but a good mob film always has one Jewish guy who the wiseguys kind of tolerate because […]

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So I had something really BIG planned for this show but, well, like most of the big plans I have, this one didn’t pan out in time. Instead, I’ve done a little retrospective of some of what I think the high points have been for the show over the last 200 episodes. In order of […]

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Tim King from +grooveARMY has written a brilliant widget for TPN which will run on your desktop to make sure you never miss another TPN podcast! The Yahoo! Widget Engine (formerly known as Konfabulator) is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can […]

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So… since Ewan Spence started doing TPN Rock a couple of years ago, I’ve wanted to have a crack at it. And as soon as he told me he was looking for guests hosts, I DEMANDED a go at it. And it was FUN! Too much fun almost. I got to live out my radio […]

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This article on the new Samsung “iPhone killer” F700 has this interesting paragraph: … the F700 offers 7.2 Mbps download capabilities through High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) connections. Once the 7.2 Mbps HSDPA network is completely deployed around the country, F700 users will be able to download a 4-MB MP3 song in roughly four […]

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Every year, the editors of Harvard Business Review find twenty essays on provocative and important new ideas. Here is my review of the 2007 list. They are: 1. The Accidental Influentials 2. Entrepreneurial Japan 3. Brand Magic: Harry Potter Marketing 4. Algorithms in the Attic 5. The Leader from Hope 6. An Emerging Hotbed of […]

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Welcome to anyone visiting here for the first time after hearing about podcasting on Jon Faine’s show this morning. Take a few minutes to check out some of the shows, listen to the other shows on The Podcast Network, and leave a comment, send me an email, whatever. Welcome to the future of media. The […]

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John Howard still doesn’t want to do anything about climate change. The Cartoon Network pays $2 million in fines in the cheapest ad buy this year. And I review some of the recent comments on the blog. All that and not much more on tonight’s show. If you enjoyed this podcast, make sure you don’t […]

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Chris Saad is one of the whizkid whippersnappers behind Brisbane-based start-up Touchstone. He’s also one of the founders of the new Media 2.0 Workgroup which (according to their site) is … a group of industry commentators, agitators and innovators who believe that the phenomena of democratic participation will change the face of media creation, distribution […]

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James Farmer and I will be debating the future of citizen media on Jon Faine’s top rating ABC radio show this WEDNESDAY morning. James used to be a great blogger… until he sold out and took a job with Aussie media dinosaurs Fairfax in the middle of 2006. Nah, only kidding. Well about James that […]

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Brian Shearer has a great interview with comic book artist Mark Sparacio over on TPN’s new Comic Review Weekly podcast. I didn’t know Sparacio by name but he’s the very talented guy who did the above painting as well as covers for Marvel and DC Comics. Brian talks to him about how he started working […]

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Recently I discovered an Aussie start-up taking on the big boys in the area of local search – the online business directory dLook. Started in April 2006 by Theo and Meg Tsiamis, dLook is going head-to-head with the bigger online business directories in Australia and is starting to take siginificant marketshare from them, at least […]

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Today, in the next episode of my “Melbourne’s Leaders” series, my guest is Mr Brian Watson. Brian is the founder and Executive Chairman of Georgica Associates Pty Ltd, a private equity asset management and advisory firm in Melbourne. He was based in New York with J.P. Morgan from 1987-1999, as Global Head of Equity Underwriting […]

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Scienta’s post on why not everyone in Australia likes to celebrate the coming of the Europeans reminded me of a podcast I listened to this morning in a similar vein. The latest episode of Learn Out Loud’s excellent “Great Speeches in History” podcast has a speech by Frederick Douglass who confronts the country at the […]

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I was listening today to an episode of The Infidel Guy’s show and he was interviewing a bloke by the name of Dan Garvin. Dan Garvin was a Scientologist for 27 years and a Sea Org member (their senior ranks, so-called because all the secret stuff happens on an ocean liner) for 25 years. He […]

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Okay okay, so it’s time I gave the Christians some airtime. Today my guest is John Dickson. John has degrees in theology (Moore Theological College) and ancient history (Macquarie University). He holds the position of Honorary Associate in the Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University, and is engaged in ongoing research into early Christianity. He […]

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Today my guest is John Allsopp – a software engineer, speaker, writer, educator and surf lifesaver, with a long standing interest in CSS, web design and development. He is also one of the founders and organizers of the web design and development conferences “Web Directions“. We discuss “Web 2.0”, what it means, and why it […]

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John Havens, who writes the Podcasting site for about.com, recently did an interview with TPN’s Wayne Turmel, who does the Cranky Middle Manager podcast, and his show’s first sponsor, James Manktelow, CEO of MindTools. It’s got a lot of detail in it and is a terrific overview from both Wayne and James on TPN’s model […]

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On the show tonight…. Evan Maloney is an Aussie, living in Poland, getting paid to blog for News.com.au, writing (and selling!) screenplays and once upon a time got his head literally kicked in for trying to protect a couple of girls in Melbourne. He ended up in a coma for his trouble. Check out his […]

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Some of you may know that for a long while I co-hosted a weekly podcast here on The Podcast Network with Australian cleric Father Bob Maguire. Recently Poland-based News Corp blogger (figure that one out) Evan Maloney wrote a post suggesting that Father Bob would make a much better leader of the Catholic Church in […]

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On the show tonight…. The word of the day is “Ringtonitis”: When that personalized ringtone you added to your mobile phone just doesn’t seem funny or clever anymore and you are completely sick of it. eg “Making the Galaga theme my ringtone was funny for about a week but now it’s giving me ringtonitis.” I […]

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On the show tonight…. The word for the day is “blogorrhea“. To write a blog entry just for the sake of posting an entry, not because you have done anything interesting today. Think you only use 10% of your brain? Think again. Why should Australia’s Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock have the ability to stop someone from […]

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I just love the way so-called “customer support” folks in telephone companies still think “It isn’t possible” is a legitimate excuse for bad customer service. I rang 3 today to try to get them to merge the two data plans I have with my two devices (my mobile phone and my laptop card). I had […]

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Brian Shearer, Marty Blevins and Andy Slaughter have been running a great podcast about comics over on their Gravyboy site for a year and I’m very excited to have them joining TPN! I’ve been wanting a comics podcasts since day one of TPN and so I was really excited when Scott Sherman brought these guys […]

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Sorry folks, was out tonight with a mate shooting the breeze. Oh and reading “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins, which I finally bought. So far – brilliant. One request – I just noticed G’Day World has a princely total of ZERO reviews in the Aussie iTunes store. Anyone want to rectify that situation for […]

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The word of the day is “Enterdrainment“: Any passive form of entertainment that is so incredibly mind numbing that it sucks the intelligence from the listener or viewer; ultimately over time reducing (or limiting) them to a simplistic proto-human mental state, incapable of cognition or rational thought. Kind of like this show. 🙂 To give […]

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The word of the day is “epiphenomenalism”. Benjamin Libet did an experiment which suggests that thoughts happen inside our brains BEFORE we are even aware of them: Wikipedia bio More on Libet’s experiment. You don’t believe a country like the USA could be involved in state-sponsored terrorism? The United Nations would disagree. Listen while I […]

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I just got an email from Jonathan Wrigley, my Apple source! He and Beti, the host of TPN’s Health And Fitness Podcast, are currently in San Francisco attending MacWorld. And they just got engaged! At the top of Coit Tower! My congratulations and best wishes to them both!

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A little early with the show today. Here’s what I rant about: Apple has double standards when it comes to copyrights The Separation of Church And State Sargon I of Akkad, the first Empire builder IODA PROMONET previews not working I’ve still only had a couple of people sign up for my $50 Amazon voucher […]

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Ze Frank talks about Free Will. The Periodic Table by Primo Levi MacromanticsKill Rock Stars Hey How come nobody signed up for my promotion? You don’t want a free $50 Amazon voucher?

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Ian’s the host of TPN’s Media Center Podcast and he’s currently at CES in Vegas. And he just got to chat with Bill Gates for the first time. I remember meeting Bill for the first time back in the day. It’s a pretty heady experience if you tell yourself you are standing there chatting with […]

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Dave The Lifekludger Originally uploaded by cameronreilly. Dave Wallace aka The Lifekludger, co-host of the Extraordinary Everyday Lives podcast on TPN, joined me for a spot of lunch today. He’s visiting from Adelaide. Dave is an amazing bloke. Spent over half his life in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the shoulders down. And is a serious […]

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A short one tonight, talking about some new books I received today. If you don’t know anything about Marcel Proust or Henry Miller, here’s your chance to get yourself educated. I know some of you rely on me to bring you up to speed in the world, so tonight I help you round out your […]

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CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD My man Daniel Craig… no I mean Daniel Krause aka Dark Meat aka Ladies Love Dark M joins me on the podcast today to talk about CASINO ROYALE aka James Bond 21. It’s a long one – an hour and twenty! Almost as long as the film itself and we didn’t […]

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Tonight Duncan Riley and I talk about: Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin – You’ll Believe A Geek Can Fly Kevin Smith’s Clerks 2 kicked ass Who Is Barack Obama? Are You a “resolutionary”? The World’s Greatest “Fuck You” Ever? New poll reveals George W Bush America’s #1 Villian The Catholics and Euthanasia – How The […]

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Tonight Duncan and I talk about: Australia’s Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott and his Catholic invasion Casino Royale, what a great Bond film! Music Industry Changes Its Tune on Podcasting? No, not so much. If you enjoyed this podcast, make sure you don’t miss future episodes by subscribing to our feed. If you use iTunes, […]

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Well we said we were going to do it last night and tonight, in our first attempt, we CURED OUR FIRST CHRISTIAN. Here’s some links you might want to follow up. Molly’s blog. Oh yeah Molly, you may have had to give up your belief in Christianity but you at least got a link out […]

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My guest host this week is Duncan Riley (no relation). Duncan was one of the founders and VP Operations of blogging network b5 Media until his sudden departure recently. He hails from Bunbury in Western Australia. Mitch Denny’s joins us briefly (my PC stopped recording… sorry Mitch) to give us his overview of the Ferrari […]

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I can’t tell you how exhilarated I am tonight after watching Richard Dawkins’ two-part DVD “The Root Of All Evil?“. For years I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the feeling that I should just accept christianity as a reasonable viewpoint. Particularly as my boys grow up, I find it unreasonable that they should be told […]

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Today my guests are TPN’s host of The Atomic Show, Rod Adams, and we’re very honoured to have with us again the Wisconsin Secretary of State, Doug La Follette. **I want to apologize straight off for the poor sound quality. Despite a soundcheck, my mic settings were way off and I’ve done the best I […]

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Dec 20, 2006, was Carl Sagan Day, the 10th anniversary of the death of one of history’s great scientists and communicators. He touched hundreds of millions of people with his work, his books and his TV series “Cosmos”. Joel Schlosberg organised the Sagan Blogathon and many people wrote about the impact Sagan had on their […]

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Ewan has the news: A massive big congrats to Thom Allen, host of The Podcast Network’s Jazz Show. It’s just been listed as one of the Best Podcasts of 2006 by the Staff at iTunes: Just glancing at the other nominated podcasts, the list includes This American Life (NPR), The South Bank Show podcast and […]

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Ross Dawson is a strategy consultant, keynote speaker, and bestselling author. He runs a company called Future Exploration Network, a global events and consulting firm specializing in the future of business. Earlier in 2006 he ran the The Future Of Media Summit and we chatted for a while last week about the future of media […]

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I’ve been using iArt for a few months to get missing mp3 art. But I have found something better. Dave and Knightwise talked about it on Global Geek Podcast #30. It’s called TuneSleeve and I’ll tell you a few of the reasons why I like it. 1. It has an option to delete the current […]

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How many TPN shows do you listen to? Just G’Day World? Then you are missing out on some great ear juice. Here’s one you should have, especially if you’re the kind of person who likes to go to work and spout of random bits of trivia to impress your colleagues. Brian Ibbott’s “Today in Music […]

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Today my guest is Hanan Lifshitz, founder and CEO of Palore, joining me from Israel. Palore is a browser plug-in that pulls together reviews of businesses (restaurants, plumbers, etc) from across the web and let’s you view them directly from the website of the business. I think services like this will be key to us […]

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This is the second show in my series of interviews with Melbourne’s top business and government leaders that I’m calling “Melbourne’s Top Dogs“. On this show, I’m very fortunate to interview Simon McKeon, Executive Chairman of the Melbourne office of Macquarie Bank, aka “The Millionaire Factory”, Australia’s premier investment bank. Simon is an inspiring bloke. […]

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I’m listening to the New Scientist Magazine’s podcast interview with Richard Dawkins. It’s really interesting stuff and it looks like a bunch of secular scientists from around the world are getting ready for the latest round in the Great War between Science and Religion for the minds of the human race. I’m personally one who […]

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Tonight Scott Sherman and I recorded a lengthy podcast mostly covering the release of the new Superman II – The Richard Donner Cut DVD. We talk about the original theatrical release of the film, some of the background as to why Donner left the production, and some of the story around the new cut of […]

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I’m going to start doing the Movie Show podcast again! If you want to join me, you can view our recording schedule and shownotes by adding our Google Calender. The shownotes are kept at The TPN Movie Show Notebook. Starting tonight with a look at Superman II (The Original Cut) and Little Miss Sunshine.

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A few days ago I recorded an interview with Tom Petryshen, CEO of Amplify, a company that helps Australia’s top brands increase traffic and sales via search engine optimisation (SEO), paid search marketing (SEM), email, and affiliate marketing. I asked Tom to explain SEO to me in the simplest terms he could. We talk some […]

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Back at DMF, listening to Michael Allen, Apple’s local “podcast guru”. Very engaging talk so far. Big Mick Liubinskas from Tangler has posted up some photos from last night’s STIRR. They were giving out special monopoly money to “invest” on some of the entrepreneur pitches during the evening and guess whose face was on it? […]

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5am, Melbourne airport. On my way to Sydney to talk at Digital Media World and to attend STIRR. Half asleep. Went out with some mates last night to see “Little Miss Sunshine“. Pretty good film, not at all the chick flick I thought it was going to be. Interestingly, Steve Carell shot this before he […]

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As I was looking through TPN’s November stats last night I remembered a question that a VC in SF asked me last month that I couldn’t answer. The question was: how many hours of programming does The Podcast Network have up on its servers today? Calculating the amount of hours involves some slight guesswork but […]

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Today on the show, on a suggestion from Michael Specht, I talk about John Gartner’s recent blog post suggesting that podcasting will never become important. Here are some other links mentioned in the show: BusinessWeek’s article “What Podcasting Revolution?” World Internet Usage Stats UPDATE: Here is a link to the Pew Report. Note that the […]

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As some of you may have noticed, and as I mentioned on the show today, we had some slight “issues” with the TPN servers in the last 24 hours, mostly because this post I did last night got hit by DIGG. We got slammed. I did the same traffic to G’Day World in one 24 […]

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A loooooong show today, almost 90 minutes, with three guest co-hosts, a clip from another TPN show, a music clip from PUBLIC ENEMY… it’s our first YEAR THREE show and so I indulged. Mea Culpa. My guest co-hosts today include: Shane Williamson (who didn’t started late and didn’t stay long because his Optus Cable sucks […]

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Remember in October when Dave Gray, one of the hosts of TPN’s GlobalGeek podcast, sent a letter to Apple with a cheque for $1 for using the term “podcast”? I thought he was just kidding around but apparently he did actually send the letter and the cheque – to Steve Jobs. Seriously. Well… yesterday he […]

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Well it’s Year Three of the G’Day World podcast and as always I’m going to frak around with the format. As you may already know, G’Day World invented Skypecasting. We were the very first people EVER to record a Skype call as a podcast. Don’t believe me? It’s in Wikipedia so it must be true […]

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Here I was thinking we did the first show on November 29, 2004 and I just realized it was November 26!!! So I missed it. Happy 2nd Birthday to Australian podcasting! In celebration, I’ve thrown the very first show into the feed so you can all re-listen to it! For some of you it might […]

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What do Borat, Global Warming, Milton Friedman and Bono have in common? They are all mentioned on today’s show! Shane Williamson joins me again today to talk about: the woman who kept her dead husband in the cupboard for three years the death of Milton Friedman the global warming controversy Cranky Middle Manager interview with […]

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okay folks so… I’ve given zero thought to what we should do on Dec 2nd to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of G’Day World and therefore the 2nd anniversary of Aussie podcasting. How about a poker night at my place? BYO food, drinks and poker chips. Also bring $20 for the pot. Texas Hold ‘Em. Pubs […]

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It’s my great pleasure today to have Doug La Follette on the show. Doug is a United States academic, environmental activist, and politician. He is the current Secretary of State of Wisconsin. Known as an environmental activist before running for public office, in 1970 he was a Wisconsin organizer of the first Earth Day for […]

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In today’s news: The Pew Internet and American Life Project said Wednesday that 12 percent of Internet users have downloaded a podcast, an increase from 7 percent earlier in the year. However, only about 1 percent said they download a podcast on a typical day — unchanged from the survey earlier this year. The rest […]

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To celebrate the TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF G’DAY WORLD this month I’m introducing the new new format. Helping me out today is my good good buddy Shane Williamson and his crapola microphone. Shownotes: Male chimps like a bit of MILF. – link The concept of the “jolt” from Kalle Lasn’s book “Culture Jam”. – link […]

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About a month ago, Clarke Scott and I launched wHooiz in STEALTH mode. We were so successful at keeping it in stealth mode that most of you haven’t heard of it. So now we’re moving it up to WHISPER mode. Which basically means we’re talking about it… but not much. We’d really like to get […]

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Thanks to a feed error that Caitlin is getting from the G’Day World feed, I was prompted this morning to check out Netvibes and I was immediately hooked. I’ve now dumped Bloglines and will be using Netvibes as my default home page / RSS reader. What is Netvibes? Here’s a nice description from masey’s excellent […]

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Lynn Fischer now has over 1,000,000 healthy cookbooks in print, and her “Low Fat Cooking for Dummies” has been an amazing best seller for the past four years. With so much talk in the media at the moment about the rise and rise of Type II diabetes, I thought it was time for us to […]

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As part of my new job as part-time entertainment gossip mongerer for the showBUZZ podcast, I’ve had to learn how to find stuff like this – the recently released 19 second clip of Britney Spears’ alleged sex tape that rumours say her ex-husband K-Fed is going to sell the full version of. WARNING: NOT WORK […]

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Yesterday I caught up with Helene Juguet, Director of Marketing, Ubisoft. Among many other successes, Helene was responsible for marketing one of my favourite games EVER – Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell. Sam Fisher was in foyer of the Ubisoft offices: During the interview we talk about: The Frag Dolls The latest edition of the Splinter […]

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So tonight I went to see Lou Reed play a gig in Redwood City, an hour by train outside of SF. It was HUGE! As some of you know, back in Jan 2005, as we started TPN, I published my dream list of people I’d like to interview on my podcast. At the top of […]

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Allow me to vent for a minute on something few of you will care about – Van Halen. Long time viewers will know that I grew up listening to VH and pretty much decided to be David Lee Roth when I grew up (something I never really got over but now I’d be happy to […]

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J. David Markham and I recorded a new episode of our Napoleon podcast yesterday and it was unique because we were actually in the same room! Check it out.

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J. David Markham Originally uploaded by cameronreilly. I’ve had a number of wonderful coincidences on this trip. Lots of very strange coincidences which prove to me that either a) it’s a very small world or b) my network is getting way too large. But today takes the cake. Yesterday Ellisa Feinstein told me I should […]

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Today my guest is Josh Crandall from Media-Screen, who provides strategic market research services focusing on the online consumer. They’ve recently put out a research report called “Netpop | Portraits” which they call “The first segmentation analysis of U.S. broadband users aged 13 and over investigates the modern consumer online.” It contains some interesting ideas […]

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[Discuss this show in the forums] Today I’m recording from the ANZA Tech Conference 2006 in Sunnyvale, CA. My guests on the show include: Richard Geasey, District Manager – Seattle Washington, Austrade, talking about how Austrade helps Aussies do business in the good ol’ USA Dr Tim van Gelder, Austhink Software, creators of critical thinking […]

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I’m excited to announce the first episode of showBUZZ, a thrice-weekly (that’s three times a week) celebrity gossip podcast that I’m producing and co-hosting for News.com.au. My co-host Justine Parker, Deputy Entertainment Editor for News.com.au, and I dissect the top celebrity gossip stories of the day in a 15-minute show. Check it out here!  At […]

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[Discuss this show in the forums] G’Day folks, just thought I’d wrap up my impressions of the last two days of Digital Hollywood from my current base in Carmel, California. The last couple of days were very different from the first as most of the folks on the panels represented the big TV networks, movie […]

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Hey Folks, Cam in LA doing a quick update from the Digital Hollywood conference. My raw notes are below if you can make any sense out of them. Web 2.0 – The Next Iteration: How Next Generation Personalized Media is Rewiring the Web – User Generated Media, Programmable Web, Podcasting, Mashups & Blogging – Transforming […]

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Beti the Excel Jedi (and the host of the TPN Health and Fitness podcast) has put together a nifty pps containing the results of the TPN Oct 2006 survey so far. I’ll leave it open for another few weeks but I think the results are already showing some interesting trends. Some interesting things that popped […]

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Today’s edition is my last podcast from Australia – at least for a while. My guests are Richard Giles and Tony Goodson. If you enjoyed this podcast, make sure you don’t miss future episodes by subscribing to our feed. If you use iTunes, click here. If you use another aggregator, grab our RSS feed here. […]

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Okay so my trip to the US is confirmed. I’m arriving in LA on Oct 22 to attend the Digital Hollywood conference and then heading down to San Fran on Oct 25 or 26. I’ll be presenting at the ANZA TECH conference from Oct 30 – Nov 1 and then sticking around in SF until […]

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Miriam needs a Productivity Buddy to help her stay on track with her GTD weekly review. Des and I came up with the idea of the Productivity Buddy ™ system while recording our Productivity podcast last month. Basically you buddy up with someone and make sure you keep each other on track with your weekly […]

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Thanks to everyone out there who remembered by birthday today and sent me emails, IMs, called me, etc. It was quite overwhelming. Who the hell ARE all you people anyway? I got happy birthday emails from people I don’t even know. That’s weird. Especially when celebrating birthdays is something you try to avoid. Anyway, I […]

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Tom Reynolds, the guy who was a Telstra blogger until his contract was unceremoniously terminated last week, oh-so-coincidentally 24 hours after he wrote a post slightly critical of Telstra, joins Rich and I on the show today. We talk about Type 2 Diabetes, childhood obesity and fast food. I think it’s time we (eg me) […]

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Here is a list of the Top Ten downloaded podcasts on The Podcast Network in Sept 2006:1 G’Day World 2 Claybourne 3 Digital Photography 4 Media Centre 5 Rock 6 PSP 7 Edinburgh Fringe Festival 8 Martial Arts 9 Gaming 10 Cranky Middle Manager Congrats to the hosts of those shows for producing outstanding entertainment!

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Jon and Beti were raving about "Look Around You" at the last TPN dinner and I finally watched some of it tonight on YouTube. What a gem. Thank god for YouTube. This alone justified their $3 quadrillion valuation. If I had the funds, I’d buy three of ’em. Hey – the sun is up. It’s […]

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Dave Gray aka Rooster aka the host of TPN’s Global Geek podcast, has taken the initiative and written a nice letter to Steve Jobs offering him a cheque for $1 for the use of the word "podcast". Legally I think he’s probably setting what they call a "precedent", but as long as the precedent is […]

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Today I’m kicking off a new series of shows that I’m calling ‘Melbourne’s Top Dogs’. I’m going to approach Melbourne’s leading business people and government leaders and try to discover a little bit about what makes them tick. This first interview is with Mr Geoff Lord. A quick bio: After a business education at Melbourne […]

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Podshow’s recent 2nd round of $15m financing raises the question again as to what The Podcast Network (TPN) is worth. I have no real metrics to measure TPN v Podshow other than Alexa. I know it isn’t very reliable, but it’s all I have. So far Podshow have raised $24 million and TPN has been […]

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Kevin and Jason have uploaded another episode (finally!) of the "Treading Lightly" podcast which is pretty good timing considering my recent rant about wanting TPN to do more to promote "An Inconvenient Truth". In this episode the boys talk in some detail about Integral Energy’s green power options and purchasing other peoples green options. I […]

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Last week Dave “The Lifekludger” Wallace and Mike “The Fang” Seyfang, the hosts of TPN’s Extraordinary Everyday Lives podcast, had me on as a guest to discuss how I deal with stress and cope with upheaval. All three of us have had an interesting year with a variety of personal and professional challenges and we […]

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Two lifehacks I’ve found useful to share with you today. 1. THE BOX. Have you ever had something that you are obsessing over and it takes up all of your mental and emotional energy? It might be a problem you are facing, a mistake you made, someone you’ve lost, hunger pains or even a pain […]

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Check out our new sponsors Wardy IT and Direct TV! Yesterday my mate Shane Williamson in Sydney skyped me (long time listeners might remember him from G’Day World #3) and then he conferenced in our mate Brenton Perry (who was on G’Day World #132) at home in Texas. Shane, Brenton and I all used to […]

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Check out our new sponsors Wardy IT and Direct TV! Paull Young is a young whippersnapper PR guy in Brisbane who is one of Australia’s most active PR blogger/podcasters. I chatted with him recently about PR blogging and podcasting. The G’Day World Theme Song: “Save Me by The Napoleon Blown Aparts, America’s baddest rock n’ […]

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Molly Malone just let me know that the little podcast I do with J. David Markham about Napoleon Bonaparte has cracked the Top 100 in the Australian iTunes directory. It’s currently at #90. Who would have thought that many people are interested in Napoleon? 

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I’m speaking tomorrow morning (Thursday Sept 26) at the Australian Marketing Institute breakfast about "Brands and Blogging". Also speaking is Paul Crisp who (according to the bio on the AMI site) manages public affairs for Telstra’s Consumer Marketing and Channels Division. He also leads Telstra’s New Media Project, managing the company’s corporate blog at www.nowwearetalking.com.au and […]

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That and other very fine words of advice can be found in "Satan’s Training Brochure", WW Turmel’s guide to Middle Management behaviours. I’m pretty sure some of my past bosses had read this, especially the chapter entitled "Getting To Maybe:- Delayed Decision Making For the Budget-Constrained". In fact, I think I know some venture capitalists […]

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Check out our new sponsors Wardy IT and Direct TV! Rich and Cam are back and we’ve decided it’s: NO MORE MISTER NICE GUY!! Uni Prof told to pull down his podcasts David Weinberger coins the term “Freechasing” – free as in peanuts Microsoft takes on YouTube with “Soapbox“ Peter Thiel’s investment in life extension […]

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WWT, host of one of TPN’s top rating podcasts, The Cranky Middle Manager Show, has been interviewed in depth by John C Havens on About.com’s podcasting page. It’s a terrific and revealing interview, even though he manages to take an in advertent dig at me for putting out longer shows! He has a lot of […]

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Nick Randolph has taken over hosting TPN’s Microsoft Developer podcast. In his first episode, he’s talking with a bunch of experienced user group co-ordinators about the different .Net user groups across Australia and New Zealand. Welcome to TPN Nick!

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Well last night, to celebrate Richard Giles’ first trip to Melbourne since he’s been on TPN, a few of us, hosts and guests, gathered together in solemn fashion for dinner at Chocolate Buddha in Fed Square, then had a few drinkies at Taxi. I won’t say ANYTHING about what was discussed (valour being the better […]

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Check out our new sponsor Wardy IT! Rich and I do our first show together LIVE! Not all that exciting really. I thought he’d be much better looking. We talk about… stuff. Rich gives his perspective on Phil Sim’s recent “Influence 2006” conference up at the Hunter Valley. We talk about how to harness the […]

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Ewan The-Hardest-Working-Man-In-Podcasting Spence has had his way with the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and is now invading O’Reilly’s European Open Source Convention aka EuroOSCon. Check out his interviews with notable people over at the Tech Conf Podcast site.

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Welcome to Scott and Carmen from the Mac Help from Maui cast who have recently taken over our Mac podcast! Scott and Carmen do a great podcast on all things Apple and we’re in the progress of moving their show over to TPN. The feed is up and live and you get can subscribe here.

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Check out our new sponsor Wardy IT! Yeah it’s been a while folks! How y’all doing out there?? Did ya miss me? Today my guest is Robert Cauthorn, CEO of Citytools and longtime digital media practitioner. Robert headed and launched StarNet, the first profitable online daily newspaper, which became the Arizona Daily Star. He was […]

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Someone tell Gus his blog is down. I don’t have his email address and I just googled it but came up stumps. I was just reading his review of the recent "Countdown Spectacular" in Newcastle and I wanted to leave him a comment to say how much I enjoyed reading the review. I especially loved […]

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Dave Gray is looking for a new co-host for The Global Geek Podcast. If you’re something of a geek and you would like to do a podcast but don’t want to go it alone, ping Dave and maybe you’ll be the new dynamic duo.

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If you caught my recent post mentioning Melbourne sculptor Linde Ivimey, you might be interested in this lengthy article on her from today’s Age. I’m still trying to connect with her so I can do a podcast interview, hopefully video.

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Check out our new sponsors! iTrainer.com.au and lastminute-auction.com On my first Daily Video Edition I mentioned that Australian Philip Rhoades has recently received permission from the NSW Government to build his own cryonics facility, the first of its kind in Australia. Tonight on the show, Phil and I talk in depth about cryonics. If you’re […]

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I’m getting hundreds of emails today from people in Britian who heard the first two episodes of our groundbreaking podcast drama "Claybourne" played on the BBC and they want MORE! Apparently it was played on a BBC Radio 4 show hosted by Rosie Goldsmith. Thanks Rosie! Downloading the show is pretty simple. Start here:http://claybourne.thepodcastnetwork.com/2005/02/19/claybourne-arrival-and-warning/ and […]

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Last night (Friday, 25 August 2006) I had the extreme pleasure of attending the Melbourne premiere of Kevin Smith’s new film "Clerks II" followed by a three hour Q & A with Smith himself. The Astor Theatre was packed full of devoted fans who laughed their asses off throughout the entire film and then laughed […]

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b5 Media’s Duncan Riley (no relation) just pointed me to Evan Williams’ recently post on a list of podcast sites, ranked by Alexa ranking. Evan somehow managed to completely ignore TPN. Perhaps he’s never heard of us. I’ll have to get my marketing team to send him a parcel of flowers or something. For the […]

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Have you seen this new track by Weird Al (does this guy ever die??) – Don’t Download This Song? It’s pretty naff but diggity. TPN’s Daniel K has the details over on Box Office Weekly. Dan’s also running some funny commentary about Tom Cruise’s kick in the ass by Sumner Redstone and wants to know  […]

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Check out our new sponsors! iTrainer.com.au and lastminute-auction.com About a week ago on this blog I mentioned that I’d just read an amazing book called “The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect” (aka MOPI). Today on the show I’m very excited to have the author of that book, Roger Williams. Roger talks to me from his home […]

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I’m exhausted. Damn it’s been busy. I’ll spare you the gory details, but I’m working on a bunch of projects at the moment, from capital raising for TPN, through to some podcast consulting projects, software consulting stuff, and other stuff I just can’t talk about. Fair to say I’ve got more plates spinning than I […]

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Tomorrow (Tuesday Aug 15) you should buy The Age or The Sydney Morning Herald and read the cover story in NEXT, their IT section, about the state of web hosting in Australia. I was interviewed by Nick Miller from Next recently about why TPN hosts our shows out of the Texas. And, no, it’s not […]

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November 26th 2006 will be the 2nd anniversary of "G’Day World" and therefore it is also "The 2nd Anniversary of Australian Podcasting" and the anniversary of what-was-to-become-TPN. So I guess we should start planning the party. I’m thinking we should take over a bar or something in Melbourne, take some video cameras, and drink tequila […]

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Check out our new sponsors! iTrainer.com.au and lastminute-auction.com Today on the show I’ve got two interviews. The first is the John Karantzis, CEO of Reeltime, an Aussie start-up that’s just announced a JV with Yahoo7 to deliver movie and television downloads over the net. Second I chat with Aaron Brazell, Chief Geek for b5Media, about […]

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Just some of the things you will be hearing on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival podcast in coming weeks… … The cast of the theatrical version of TOP GUN (a story about a man’s struggle with his own homosexuality) perform a scene featuring Ewan Spence as "Maverick" … challenged by the world’s 8-Ball trick shot pool […]

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Check out our new sponsors! iTrainer.com.au and lastminute-auction.com Join Cameron Reilly, the John Romero of Australian podcasting, and his good buddy Richard Giles, while they get all “blokey” with JOHN THE FRAKKIN MAN ROMERO. Now, if you’re one of those people who just said “who” then… you must vacate the premises within 7 seconds. Your […]

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Ewan Spence, TPN’s master of mayhem, is at it again – 30 podcasts in 30 days. It’s The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Last year, the podcast was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA. This year he’s got interviews lined up with The Goodies and Harry Shearer, just to name two. Make sure you sign up.

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Janet Parkinson has written an extremely flattering review of G’Day World in the latest edition of the Podcast User Magazine. She also reviews a handful of other Aussie podcasts which I’d never heard of but will be adding to my feeds. Thanks Janet! There’s also a great interview with our very own Ewan Spence about […]

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Check out our new sponsors! iTrainer.com.au and lastminute-auction.com Join Cameron Reilly, Australia’s #1 “new media” GURU, his old buddy Richard Giles, while they get all “blokey” about: Cameron’s recent rounds of meetings with magazine publishers, TV production companies, TV network chiefs, radio station chiefs and more. Did you know that podcasting is just like wanking… […]

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Join Cameron Reilly, Australia’s #1 new media GURU, his old buddy Richard Giles, and interloper Nicholas Holmes a Court, while they talk about: We celebrate Professor Julius Sumner Miller Happy Birthday Chris Pirillo! We get slightly turned on by his naked, pre-pubescent, hairless chest, and dig up his live-on-TV laughing fit. We say G’Day to […]

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Wayne Turmel, host of TPN’s Cranky Middle Manager podcast, was recently interviewed for a terrific article in the Chicago Tribune. Check it out (registration required). His sense of humour really comes through and he talks about why he does a podcast. Wayne’s been with us a year and has one of the top rated shows […]

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Today my special guest is Ibrahim Jouhari. Ibrahim writes “Bob’s Blog” from Saida in Lebanon, about 40kms away from Beirut. He has been calling for PEACE NOW on his blog for the last couple of weeks and getting a wide range of responses, from international support to extreme criticism. He talks to me about the […]

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Join Cameron Reilly, Australia’s #1 podcaster, and his old buddy Richard Giles, while they talk about: The TPN Ebay Auctions! Michael Bailey from MyChingo Where does the word “shit” come from? (oh yeah we are so high brow) The Aristocrats – what a great film! Check out “Trust” by Red Symons featuring John Howard Los […]

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Today I’m launching the first of an ongoing series of Ebay auctions to sell advertising space on TPN podcasts, starting with G’Day World. There are three advertising spaces available on G’Day World and more to come on other TPN podcasts over the course of this week. G’Day World Slot #1 G’Day World Slot #2 G’Day […]

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A couple of months ago I turned up to a stencil art event in Melbourne with my video camera and shot some interviews for a video podcast. I interviewed a range of people attending the event, including artists, musicians, and guests. I interviewed one interesting and charming young exhibiting artist from country Victoria who went […]

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UPDATE: if you only got half a podcast, sorry folks, please try again. Looks like my ftp upload failed first time around. Clarke Scott is a Melbourne guy who has just launched a series of sites (for the Australian, US and UK markets) to help people sell their used car. His hook? The listings are […]

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Neilsen/NetRatings has released a report on podcasting which has left a lot of prominent podcasters, myself included, scratching their heads and makes me wonder where they got their sample data from. A company in Cupertino by any chance? For example, they claim that the primary browser for podcasters (not podcast listeners) is Safari. Now, I […]

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TPN (that’s The Podcast Network for those of you new around here) needs a VP to head up our US operations. The main responsibilities will be to represent TPN to venture capitalists in the US and deal with advertisers. Should have experience in either media / tech start-ups / capital markets / advertising. Here’s the […]

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[audio:http://http://noillusionspodcast.com/audio/tpn_gdayworld_20060711_141.mp3] Download the podcast by right-clicking on this link. Join Cameron Reilly, Australia’s #1 podcaster, and his old buddy Richard Giles, for a special edition where Cam shares some of what’s been happening at TPN headquarters lately. No tech news, no politics, no rants, just a small insight into the ups and down of running […]

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Quick! There are only four days left to vote for your favourite TPN podcasts over at the 2006 Podcast Awards! Click here to vote and here’s a quick "How To Vote" guide like you’d get at your local elections. TPN :: Gday World          http://http://noillusionspodcast.com     TPN :: The Best of TPN          http://bestoftpn.thepodcastnetwork.com TPN :: The Gadget […]

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Sorry folks, I haven’t managed to get out an episode of G’Day World for a few days but in the meantime you can listen to a couple of other podcasts I’ve done: 2Web Crew #9 – Chris Saad from Touchstone Podcasting APB #001 – Alexander Castro, Pluggd.com

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On this special episode, TPN’s Ewan Spence chats with Jason Calacanis, who now holds the titles of CEO of WeblogsInc, General Manager of Netscape.com, and Senior Vice-President of AOL. Jason talks about his offer to Amanda Congdon and the re-launch of Netscape. VOTE for this story on Netscape. VOTE for this story on DIGG. Stuff […]

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Hard to come up with a funny title for this post. Of course the biggest news in podcasting today is that the pretty blonde goddess of the video podcast is parting ways with Rocketboom. Why? No-one really knows. But I guess it drives home to me a couple of points. New media brands can come […]

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Join Cameron Reilly, Australia’s #1 podcaster, and his special guest co-hosts Mike Seyfang and Nick Hodge, as they try to figure out why Eddie McGuire wants to “bone” TV presenter Jessica Rowe, why the Aussie Prime Minister cares about Big Brother, and you would want a Bionic Arm! Don’t forget to pop over to our […]

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Wayne Turmel is one of only a handful of TPN hosts that I have actually met in the flesh. When I was in NYC last year, Wayne and Scott Sherman managed to get themselves to NYC to have a drink (or two) with me, which was awfully nice of them. Anyway, Wayne has written another […]

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I re-hydrated the Best Of TPN podcast today. The original idea was to select short clips from around TPN’s podcasts and put them out as a weekly show. It’s been dormant since October last year when the host gave up the ghost (hey I’m a poet) but I’m taking it over. If you want something […]

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Ian Dixon had Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine and author of the Long Tail Blog, on the most recent episode of The Media Center Show podcast. Definitely worth listening to if you’re interested in the business model of the long tail. Get it here. Lots of great examples and anecdotes. Great interview Ian! http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=thepodcastnet-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=1401302378&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000ff&bc1=000000&bg1=ffffff&f=ifr

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My fellow West Wing fan Chris Saad linked me to this 6 minute promo of Aaron Sorkin’s new TV show "Studio 60" on YouTube this morning. Looks totally brilliant. Good to see so many faces from the WW cast coming back to work with Sorkin again. Don’t forget – tomorrow is the 4th of July […]

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I listened to a couple of great podcasts this morning. I’ve been reading about the TED conference for years and dreaming of the day when I’ll get an invite. I recently found out they had a few podcasts up from their 2006 conference and I threw a couple of them onto my iPod. One by […]

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Join Cameron Reilly, Australia’s #1 podcaster, and his special guest co-hosts Mike Seyfang and Rod Adams, as they try to figure out whether or not Australia should go down the nuclear energy path and whether or not Google Checkout and Google Wallet are good or evil! Don’t forget to pop over to our G’DAY WORLD […]

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Join Cameron Reilly, Australia’s #1 podcaster, and his special guest co-host Mike Seyfang, as they try to uncover the truth about WinFS and Vista! In today’s episode we cold-call a couple of senior folks at Microsoft Australia to try to get them to answer two questions: What the hell happened with WinFS? Did the web […]

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Join Cameron Reilly, Australia’s #1 podcaster, and his special guest co-hosts Seb Prooth and Mike Vallender, as they rant about: More on the Skype telemarketing story from yesterday Dell laptops exploding! Lots of World of Warcraft news! and a bit of BLOODNINJA silliness Don’t forget to pop over to our G’DAY WORLD FORUM to chat […]

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Join Cameron Reilly, Australia’s #1 podcaster, and his special guest co-host Mike Seyfang, as they rant about: New Segment: What Cheeses Me Off – CLICK HERE to tell us what cheeses YOU off Is Skype being used for telemarketing? Female Androids – Pick me, I’m in IBM announces new super-fast chip! Special Guest: Thomas Hawk […]

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PLEASE VOTE FOR G’DAY WORLD TODAY! CLICK HERE NOW! Join Richard Giles and Cameron Reilly, Australia’s most honest podcasters, as they rant about: Our take on Bill Gates Leaving Microsoft The Bill Gates Channel 9 Video Mary Jo Foley’s Microsoft’s Top Ten Flops The Flickr Open API controversy Beta.Netscape – do we care? Marcus Frind’s […]

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Join Richard Giles and Cameron Reilly, Australia’s most feared podcasters, with special guest Douglas Nicol, as they rant about: Douglas Nicol, direct marketing guru, believes the future for podcasting is bright and he tells us about his upcoming book “Mongrel Marketing” the new google earth rocks why you’ll want to put magnets in your fingers […]

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Join Richard Giles and Cameron Reilly, Australia’s most feared podcasters, with special guests Jeremy Wright and Brenton Perry, as they rant about: Gay marriage ban fails Fighting over Arianne Caoili Is MS Office too expensive? John Hagel on Attention Scarcity Frank Arrigo’s cool heatmap The Australian Blog Index The video of the brigadier being interviewd […]

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Join Richard Giles and Cameron Reilly, Australia’s most feared podcasters, as they rant about: it’s 06-06-06 but we all now the REAL number of the devil is 616 everything you ever wanted to know about: Zoroastrianism and DyÄ“us, the original sky god the US threatens Russia with no entry to the WTO if they don’t […]

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Join Richard Giles and Cameron Reilly, Australia’s most feared podcasters, as they rant about: EYAWTKA: Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China Tim O’Reilly speaks up The Judge in the Apple v The Bloggers case is hip to Chuck D Brigadier catches Today Show off guard Apple elevator made by the same folks who […]

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Join Richard Giles and Cameron Reilly, Australia’s most feared podcasters, as they rant about: EYAWTKA: Vampires plus Cam’s idea for a comic about Vampires Shel Israel says “blah-blah-blah” to O’Reilly & CMP O’Reilly’s Sara Winge has a whinge Google and Dell are new best buddies Microsoft thinks about buying Ebay Gillmor Gang going on hiatus […]

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Join Richard Giles and Cameron Reilly, Australia’s most feared and loathed podcasters, as they rant about: War Provoking Terror, Amnesty Says Bush Democracy Doctrine, 2003(?)-2006, R.I.P. MSN Spaces is the largest blogging platform Yahoo, EBay Announce Web Partnership MSN Spaces Now Largest Blogging Service Worldwide Everything you ever wanted to know about: Bill Hicks A […]

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Join Richard Giles and Cameron Reilly, Australia’s most loved podcasters, as they rant about: The International Portable Film Festival – Simon Goodrich joins us for a chat Google PPC Video Ads MySpace seeks link with Google or Microsoft Company Asks U.S. to Provide Radio Space for Free Internet – New York Times Mobi — Could […]

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Join Richard Giles and Cameron Reilly, Australia’s most loved podcasters, as they talk about: Symantec Sues Microsoft to Stop Vista UN Panel Backs Closing Guantánamo Everything you ever wanted to know about Johannes Kepler Meet The Russian Credit Card Hackers Jack Black Ready to Race HAS ALREADY RACED on Xbox Live Don’t forget to build […]

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** In today’s show, I’ve inserted a secret code. The first person to leave me an audio message with the correct cracked code will win a free G’Day World T-Shirt! Join Richard Giles and Cameron Reilly, Australia’s most loved podcasters, as they wax profane on: Cam’s video podcast from the Melbourne Stencil Festival 2006 which […]

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Join Richard Giles, special guest Phillip Molly Malone and I while we rant about: The Pentagon 9/11 video doesn’t impress Newspaper sales on decline AOL UnCut coming coon, powered by Video Egg Listen to my 11/2005 interview with Video Egg’s CEO Kevin Sladek here John Lennon podcast Flickr is now in gamma The Internation Portable […]

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Join Richard Giles and I while we rant about: will the real Guy Kewney please stand up? the BBC video the real Guy’s blog transferring music to Ipods will soon be legal in Australia! Hooray! US DOJ says Microsoft browser is no threat Backupmyblog backs up your… blog Anthony Pellicano saga US DOJ tries to […]

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(MP3 – 14Mb- 39min) – Podcast interview with Auren Hoffman, Rapleaf Join Richard Giles and I while we rant with special guest Auren Hoffman, CEO of Rapleaf about his product. Apologies for the roughness of my audio in the first part of the show – Rich slept in and I didn’t get to do my […]

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Join Richard Giles and I while we rant with special guest Thomas Reynolds about… British MP George Galloway and Dateline’s story on him Machine Cinema = Machinima Red v Blue Thomas’s machinima of MAD MAX 2, the greatest Australian film EVER Check out some of Thomas’ halo-based machinima here Cameron will be podcasting next week […]

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Join Richard Giles and I while we rant with special guest Bruce The Moyle about… how to get free access to premium content sites using congoo why eating another person (and I’m not talking cunninglus) should be legal why we need to de-criminalize “illicit” drugs why naomi robson would be much more interesting if she […]

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Join Richard Giles and I while we rant about… the death of Richard Carleton the goddamn media coverage of the Beaconsfield miners the logies – what’s with the international guests UFO cover-up “Star Wars” original edition coming on DVD RapLeaf – check your whuffie – thanks Aaron Brazell Windows Live QnA RHCP don’t get it […]

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By popular demand… or by THEIR demand anyway… I present a special edition with Hunter & Taylor, five-year old twins.

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Join Richard Giles and I while we rant about… Everything you Ever Wanted To Know About… The Nullarbor Plain political blogger hugo kelly joins us to talk about why Jeff Kennett isn’t running and who the hell is Ted Baillieu? Skype 2.5 launches with LOTS of exciting new features Bill Gates wishes he wasn’t so […]

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Join Richard Giles and I while we get excited about having 7 listeners!!! Then we rant about… Caleb’s audio comment and we welcome Caleb from Miami, Fla. (our sixth listener) as a guest on the show! Windows Vista delayed again? Steve Ballmer’s internal memo the UN killing podcasting? more info on that here usnacks.com, Caleb’s […]

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Welcome back to the very first Australian podcast! Join Richard Giles and I while we rant about… May Day – what’s it all about? Warren Kremer Paino suing blogger Scott Johnson’s take on it Napster for free Is MSN irrelevant? HAL’s father Microsoft shares drop 11% Don’t forget to check out the new shows on […]

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Welcome back to the very first Australian podcast. Yes I’m saying that to increase my googlerank for the term “australian podcast” because I discovered today that it SUX. MY desktop PC (the one I edit one) died today and is in hospital, so I haven’t been able to balance the levels on this show. Should […]

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Join Richard Giles and I while we rant on… the amazing tale of Cameron’s mobile phone bbc.co.uk 2.0 Om Malik about Saving The Internet Scoble on saving Microsoft How MySpace’s poor design bumps up pageviews McNealy finally steps down David Lee Roth leaves radio, joins TPN Don’t forget to check out the new shows on […]

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Join Richard Giles and I while we rant on… How I fractured my toe last night ANZAC Day and Gallipoli Google Calendar API released keepvid.com Al Gore saves the world TPN::Nui’s Rave Michael K O R H A N I ‘s audio comment fatty and skinny body scan Chris’ comments Don’t forget to check out […]

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Join Richard Giles and I while we rant on… Teiko’s audio comment about crashing in NYC while listening to G’Day World! Sorry mate… DIGG fraud. Do you care? Raising money via SMS for Father Bob I am the #1 result for porn podcast Ken Kennedy‘s audio comment Skylook on the front page of Skype The […]

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Cam’s review of Cory Doctorow talk in Melbourne How to get around DRM’d PDFs using Gmail How many people are going to download TV? Blogs doubling every 6 months 64,000 podcasts out there according to Podnova New Windows Media Player – no podcast directory? replacing the hard drive on my ipod – how to here […]

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wayne turmel’s joke new host needed for the Mac User Show on TPN Apple product placement The Nokia 770 gets slammed Newspapers are still bleeding 27% of people heard of podcasting Fox is going to put it’s TV shows on the net GW Bush’s iPod has illegal music Don’t forget to check out the new […]

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Rod Adams from The Atomic Show on TPN joins in to discuss Apple Bootcamp and the question in my mind at the moment – is it now safe for me to buy a Mac? Show links: Barry Schwartz – Less Is More – are too many choices a bad thing? Boot Camp users stuck in […]

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UPDATE: Hey if iTunes pulled down the wrong show, that’s my fault folks. We had two enclosures, all fixed now. Mea culpa. Today Rich and I are joined by Dr Malcolm Choat, Department of Ancient History, Division of Humanities, Macquarie University, Sydney, who is Australia’s (and, as far as we’re concerned, the WORLD’S) leading expert […]

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Today on the show, Richard “The Procrastinator’ Giles and I talk about: the weather in Perth! (but wait… it gets even better!) Cam’s eye surgery gone wrong I want my Windows running on a Mac 1% of US Households listening podcasts – true or false? judas gospel using odeo for audio comments (see below) Church […]

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Today we have a special guest on the show – Jeremy Chase, the Second Life mafia guy Then we get down to business talking about: Hollywood is selling movies online Valueshacker #7 – Copying – is it theft? Newspapers cranky about scraping Newspapers seeing online growth How Bill Gates works Red Hot Pawn – play […]

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allTunes – buy entire albums for $1.50 South Korea wants robots in every house by 2010 Swapzies and Stridr – new mp3 and online storage options LastFM, audioscrobbler and MusicIP Eric Rice sticks the boot into Podshow Richard Siklos’ article in the NYT today Squidoo MLM or not? As always, our Intro / Outro music […]

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Hunter & Taylor make their podcasting debut by discussing their favourite superheros, whether or not they would choose superhero powers over jedi powers, what their favourite XBOX game is, and by making fart noises. I’m such a proud dad.

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Joining Rich and I today is Rod Adams, co-host of TPN’s Atomic Show, to chat a bit about nuclear energy versus fossil fuels. We also cover the small amount of technology news worth talking about today. Facebook wants $2 Billion and Rod’s seen it! Business Week’s perspective The Net Neutrality Bill looking ill who really […]

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Seth Godin video How come everyone’s an expert all of a sudden? Sky-Click the virtual call-center Bill Gates video from 1998 Kleptone’s new mash-up CD free to download Jobs USED to agree with the French government

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I was about to post up the latest 2Web Crew podcast tonight when Mano told me our new site is up and running, so I threw it up there instead! Check it out here. On this show we discuss Caterina’s post about whether or not it is too late to start a web2.0 company and […]

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Guest host is David Green, host of TPN’s All American Show, who works for the US Dept of Defense and was stationed in Iraq from Jan 2005 – Jan 2006, so this is a show about IRAQ. I apologize for my audio quality on this show… 100 shows and I still forgot to switch on […]

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On today’s show, my guest hosts are my co-founding members of 2Web.com.au, Ben Barren, Martin Wells, Duncan Riley and Nik Cubrilovic and we talk about Jason Calacanis and why he didn’t turn up for our intervew.

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On today’s show, Richard Giles and I talk about: Cam’s running the new Alpha of Firefox 2.0 – no biggie Jeffrey Han and the Minority Report Mark Cuban – TV over internet Rich’s Flickr book is up on Flickr and Amazon The Office to air web-only episodes this summer Microsoft taking on Craiglist – Expo […]

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On today’s show, Richard Giles and I talk about: Rich brings us up to speed on his trip to O’Reilly’s E-Tech 2006 Marvel Comics and DC trademark “super-hero” Online Reputation – does it matter? Firefox 2.0 Alpha is out! Scott Adams diet plan As always, our Intro / Outro music “D24″ courtesy of Melbourne band […]

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On today’s show, my guest hosts are my co-founding members of 2Web.com.au, Ben Barren, Richard Giles, Martin Wells and our newest member Duncan Riley and we talk about: the iBuzz, the musical orgasm machine Who is Michael Arrington and why is he the hub of Web2.0? What is Michael’s edgio play all about? Why aren’t […]

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On today’s show, my guest hosts, co-founding members of 2Web.com.au, Nik Cubrilovic and Ben Barren and I talk about: Who or what is 2web? What is Web2.0? What is Ajax? What motivates a Web2.0 entrepreneur to quit their job? Are we in another tech bubble? Web2.0’s dirty little secret The much-mentioned Jason Calacanis interview As […]

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On today’s show, guest host David Gray and I talk about: Google buys Writely New Office 12 screenshots 2Web – the Aussie social network for web2.0 / new media entrepreneurs Scientists set the world record for highest temperature How much this whole Iran bullshit is pissing me off And then I interview Ben Davis, Vice […]

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On today’s show, guest hosts Bruce Moyle and Q-DOG and I talk about: Google’s CL2 Dana Reeve Gordon Parks Microsoft’s Origami Microsoft Search – this time they’ll get it right! No really! And Rich Giles comes on LIVE!!!! from O’Reilly’s ETech in San Diego to tell us some what the hell is going on over […]

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On today’s show, guest hosts Bruce Moyle and Mike Seyfang and I talk about: Poly The Pollie launches on TPN Bill Gates and Malaria How Axosoft Sold $1.3 Million Worth of Software in 3 Days As always, our Intro / Outro music “D24″ courtesy of Melbourne band Spruiker. And if you dig the show, pull […]

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On today’s show I chat with Hugo Kelly, Aussie political and business journalist, who recently left Aussie site Crikey amidst some very public sturm-und-drang. Not many people in this country can genuinely claim experience in both OLD and NEW media, but Hugo is one of those. We talk about his experiences in both new media […]

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On today’s show I chat with David Clarke, Managing Director, Board Member and Founding Partner of Webjet, Australia’s only pure-play online travel agency. He was previously Group Chief Executive of Jetset Travel and Technology Holdings Pty Ltd . Among other things we talk about: the origins of Webjet and their vision for online travel services […]

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On today’s show, Rich and I talk about: Amazon’s upcoming music service MySpace heading to a mobile near you shozoo TPN in iTunes Steve Rubel moving Area775 Gizmo-in service launches Clooney’s BATMAN costume up for sale Mac OSX worm/virus creates havoc Apple to buy Blockbuster Video? Now… if you live in SPAIN, and you listen […]

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On today’s show, Rich and I talk about: If you smuggle drugs into Bali, you’re a frakkin idiot If you want us to channel kickbacks to Saddam Hussein through this show, just call google buys measure map…. and so? will craig ashley russell come on the show? And why does he have three names? squash-blogger […]

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Hey I’d like to thank everyone who has been voting for the show over at Podcast Alley. Keep it up!

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On today’s show, Rich and I talk about: Jodie Miner… GDAY WORLD listener, SQL programmer, builder, Democrat voter and CHICK. She even joins us on her mobile (and I apologize for the quality of the connection… one reason why Skyping people on their mobile is NOT going to work) Craig Ashley Russell is writing about […]

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On today’s show, Rich and I are joined by GUEST HOST STEVE LACEY and we talk about: Steve’s 11 years with Microsoft, working on the Flight Sim team, his band SPANK, and his new venture switchgear software news version of Google Desktop new version of Google Talk HALO movie James Cameron’s Project 880 the definition […]

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On today’s show, Rich and I are joined by Guest Host Bruce Moyle from CoolShite On The Tube and we talk about: Chris Anderson – Death Of The Blockbuster Part IV LOVE the podcast Box Office Weekly podcast MSN becoming MSN Media Network Basic Instinct 2 trailer – the greatest trailer in history Verizon are […]

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On today’s show, Rich and I are joined by special guest co-host Graeme Sutherland and we talk about: FON – free wireless for the world – maybe – but they have US$21 million cocomment – a new way to track your comments 30Boxes – a new AJAX calendaring tool now you can print new brain […]

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On today’s show, Rich and I talk about: Robert Scoble listening to Rich interview Peter Sheahan parenting advice from David Lee Roth democracy now’s State Of The Union speech from… Gore Vidal the dissident vox podcast exxon profits max barry matthew reilly Unwired building out Melbourne network Then we Skype-bomb Paul Montgomery from Tinfinger Do […]

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On today’s show, Rich and I talk about: CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN by JOHN PERKINS Google’s Earnings Hit and why is Microsoft’s Market Cap only 13x that of Goog’s Google Linux Rumours and why they need an OS Google Not Buying Napster Scoble on posting your email address Microsoft ships IE7 beta2 with […]

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On today’s show, we talk about DA LAW! (said in the voice of Sly Stallone as Judge Dredd). Specifically, technology law. My guests are Prof. Brian Fitzgerald, Head of Law, Queensland University of Technology Prof. Mark Perry, Associate Professor of Law, The University of Western Ontario, London Scott Kiel-Chisholm, Project Manager, The OAK Law Project, […]

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On today’s show, Richard “Australia’s Top Podcaster” Giles and I (his humble servant) talk about: Tech.Memeorandum News of the day – Dave Winer says we need to change the VC model Microsoft buying Seadragon Other News Take Two Interactive (makers of GTA) getting sued by City of LA Cam’s review of Second Life (zzzzzzzz) The […]

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I first heard of Planet Of Women while listening to TPN Rock #32 last November. They rocked so hard I had to check out the Planet Of Women website, which was when I discovered the below photo. Is there anything hotter than a rock chick (apart from maybe a chick with a gun a la […]

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My guest today is Bob Walsh, author of “Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality”. This book covers defining, developing and marketing a software application or web-based service while successfully building a internet-centric self-funded company.

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Happy Australia Day wherever you are! On today’s show, I talk about: Movie News – Actor Chris Penn (RESERVOIR DOGS) found dead. RIP dude. You rocked. Tech.Memeorandum News of the day – Google bows down to China. LinkBaiting Yahoo’s search team says they still want to be #1 in search? Stanford Uni makes lectures available […]

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On today’s show, I’m joined by Rich Giles and we talk about: Tech.Memeorandum News of the day – Yahoo bows down to Google Dan Gillmor talks about the struggles of citizen journalism Shel Israel bitchslaps McDonalds new blog Chad Essley compares ArtRage2.0 to Alias Sketchbook Pro Etymology lesson of the day – “candidate” Australian slang […]

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On today’s show, I’m joined by Rich Giles and Josh Gliddon from The Bulletin. We talk about: Tech News of the day – Tello, the new VOIP app Google News out of beta Ben Barren launches GNOOS b5media sells The Blog Herald Josh Gliddon talks about fMRI and depression Etymology lesson of the day – […]

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On today’s show: Tech News of the day – Naked Conversations launch party; What’s in Windows Vista Etymology lesson of the day – “affluent“ TPN news – excerpt from Dead Serious, launch of HERETIC, TRAVEL SHOW Movie News – Preview of Sundance films Australian slang lesson of the day – “Flat out like a lizard […]

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On today’s show: Taxi, by Black Light UK (www.blacklightuk.com) courtesy TPN Rock Tech news of the day from tech.memeorandum More thoughts on the DoJ and Google fiasco Cory Doctorow on the Return Of The Broadcast Flag… I say “write your Senator and tell them to do it! Please!” Scott Karp on how to fix RSS […]

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The newly retired Richard Giles joins me on the show today to talk about what the hell he is going to do with his life now that he doesn’t have a job and… Bush Administration Bullies Search Engines For Your Data Minolta Gets Completely Out Of The Camera Business Flickr Groups Larry Lessig’s book signing […]

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Ranting tonight about GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK, George Clooney’s new film (executive produced by Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner’s company, 2929 Productions) and how the message of the film relates to podcasting. For a proper review of the movie, check out tonight’s episode of The Movie Show.

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ark Knower is the National Development Coordinator of Open Family Australia, an organisation started in 1978 by Father Bob Maguire. Their mission: To improve the well-being and self-worth of alienated and excluded street children through unconditional support, whenever and wherever necessary, with the view to reconnecting them with the community. Mark and I talk about […]

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On this show I’m joined by Alex and Neil from Audacious Communications who, according to their website, are: a creative communications agency that blends the power of online social media, podcasting, blogging and vcasting with the skills of professional public relations and organisational communication. They recently made ten bold prediction for podcasting in 2006 and […]

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G’Day World #68 (MP3 – 8.8MB – 24min) LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE Alex Laats, the CEO of Podzinger, joins me today to talk about the launch of their new podcast search service. As you know, I’ve been pretty skeptical about the value of these podcast “speech-to-text” services in the past, but I think today […]

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Scott Johnson, blogger, self-described “serial entrepreneur”, founder of Feedster (which he resigned from December 15th) and co-founder of the new site Ookles, joins me today for a chat about life. We talk about his background prior to Feedster, some lessons in entrepreneurialism, and how Ookles got started. Thanks also to Michael Air, Scott’s new business […]

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Paul Scarfe from the UK has ranked his top ten non-technical podcasts. He was nice enough to include gdayworld in there. He’s also got some other ‘casts which I hadn’t heard of before and, as he’s obviously a man of excellent taste, I’ve added them to my feeds.

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A new year needs a new format. This show is a little more “newsy” than usual. Not a rant show. Not an interview show. But we’ll still have those, don’t fret my poppets. · T CAMPBELL’S laugh from Meanwhile The Comics Podcast · Matt, Freak and The Fatboy – random xmas calls and Satan · […]

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Welcome to the first G’Day World podcast of 2006! This is my third year of podcasting (Nov 2004 – Jan 2006) and it’s going to be the smack! If you are looking for a FAQ on digital video production, if you’ve just bought that flash new camcorder and want to know what the hell you […]

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Ben Barren is a Melbourne boy who has been around this innanet thing since day T-1. He’s worked for some of Australia’s top innanet companies and is now running a Web2.0 start-up. Ben’s a voracious listener of podcasts and reader of blogs, so I turn to him for the latest updates on what the hell […]

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I’m back from my vacation in hell with a suitable guest – horror novelist Joseph Nassise, author of the highly-acclaimed recent novel HERETIC. I’m about two-thirds of the way through HERETIC and it’s a real page-turner, so I was very excited about getting Joe on the show. We chat about the novel, his approach to […]

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My guest today is Cydni Tetro, Vice President of Product and Corporate Marketing, NextPage Inc. Cydni was on the podcasting panel we did at BlogOn2005 in New York last October. She has been using podcasts to add value to NextPage’s clients. In the interview we discuss her philosophy of how to best use podcasts as […]

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CENSORSHIP! Is there a need or even a justification for censorship of adult material in 21st century Australia? Today I caught up with a coffee and a chat with my mate Paul aka “Gonzo” from PolyEster Books. PolyEster Books in Melbourne has been on a mission “TO PROVIDE THE FREAKIEST UNDERGROUND BOOKS, MAGAZINES, FILMS AND […]

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Rich Giles, host of The Gadget Show, joins me today for a chat about: Wired Magazine as a Technology Market Barometer Adam Curry and “Wiki-Gate” Aussie ISP iiNet representative suggests ISPs will block Skype Why the Government doesn’t want to release Open Spectrum Thanks Rich! Sorry it’s taken so long to have you on the […]

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He’s da man who said “Markets Are Conversations”. And I get to talk to him. How was YOUR day? 🙂 Doc recently wrote an article called “Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes” which has got many of us wondering, perhaps for the first time, whether or […]

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In today’s “from the Camobile” rant, I rant about… listening to Ron Moore’s Battlestar Galactica podcast BEFORE I watch the episode Manufactured Scarcity The Star Wars Revelations fan film The genesis of HAPPY TREE FRIENDS complaints made about my bad language My brain damage news US Border Patrol knows how to Google the new Australian […]

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Okay. There you have it. We’ve been doing this bloody podcasting thing for one whole year. Despite the critics, the poverty, the death threats, and troublesome technology, we have soldiered on, over hill and dale, podcasting for one whole year. We tried very hard to think up something fun to do for our one year […]

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Quick notes from the car after speaking at the Film Victoria Financing Summit.

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Margaret Simons from The Age attended the Australian Communications and Media Authority comference that Mick Stanic spoke at a couple of weeks ago and she has written a very insightful piece in today’s Age. We get a mention towards the end of the article: New media cannot rely on audience habit. Therefore they must be truly […]

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I’m thinking a lot these days about what I can do to give back something to my local community. My discussions with folks like Father Bob, Mike Seyfang and Mark Keogh have helped inspire my thinking. On today’s show, I share my thoughts on the subject and tell you a little about what I’m going […]

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Today’s rant. You know I just realised that this is only G’Day World #10. Ten!! Ten stinkin’ shows?? In a year?? Ten shows that didn’t involve interviews. Man… that’s just slack. Today I’m talking about: Doc Searls’ article “Saving The Net”. Chris Anderson’s comments on the continuing decline in traditional media. James Bamford’s article “The […]

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“HYPERLINKS SUBVERT HIERARCHIES” My guest today was the guy who popularised that statement, although he doesn’t take credit for coming up with it. For my 60th G’DAY WORLD interview, I had the great pleasure this morning of chatting with David Weinberger! I was also fortunate enough to attend his presentation at BlogOn2005 last month and […]

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Today’s rant. This is different. This is new. Don’t confuse this with anything that’s happened in the past. There are good reasons why citizen media is different to what’s happened before. In this rant I explain some of the reason why. Let’s make sure we don’t screw it up through greed or short-sightedness. Let’s make […]

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Go and respond to the TPN “State Of The Podcast Nation” survey today and every one of you will receive FREE ENTRY into the heaven of your choice! Answer now and get 100 virgins thrown in for free!

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Just the Cam. Having a rant. Ya know, for some time now I’ve missed just being able to talk to you guys about shit that’s been on my mind. Whether or not you want to hear it, I need it. G’DAY WORLD started out as my therapy and, along the way, it turned into an […]

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Josh Gliddon is a journalist at The Bulletin magazine where he specialises in science, technology and health. In February 2005 he was the first mainstream media journalist to cover The Podcast Network. He also writes about cars, surfing and music in his blog. Last month in The Bulletin, Josh wrote a lengthy article on Intelligent […]

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Kevin Sladek is one of the co-founders of VideoEgg, an innovative, venture-backed company committed to making online video posting truly easy. During the interview we chat about the vision for VideoEgg, Kevin’s guest appearance on “The West Wing”, meeting President Bill Clinton, and what it’s like being only two degrees from Marilyn Monroe. UPDATE 2005-11-08: […]

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Another BIG interview today with one of my top ten list – Ray Kurzweil. I’ve been reading Ray’s books and articles on the the future of artificial intelligence and health for years and I’m convinced he’s on the money on both subjects. If you want to get a glimpse of what is likely to happen […]

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How do you approach an interview with a man who has just been voted the world’s leading intellectual and who you have admired from a distance for a large part of your life? Well, I decided to aim for an audio Chomsky primer. A Chomsky distiller. Rather than allow myself to ask him questions about […]

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Last week while I was at BlogOn2005 in NYC, I had the great privilege to sit around a table with three of the world’s most admired and read bloggers: > Mena Trott, president and co-founder of Six Apart, the company behind Typepad and Moveable Type. > Jackie Huba, who, with her partner Ben McConnell, wrote […]

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Rod Adams is based in Maryland in the United States. He founded Adams Atomic Engines in 1993 to design and market nuclear powered gas turbines. I chatted with him recently about the safety of atomic energy vs fossil fuels. Some of the stuff he has to say might challenge your current perceptions. This show was […]

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Michael F. runs the Teen Podcast Network (the other TPN). He’s 14. That’s all I’m going to say. Oh, except for this…. this show was recorded using Skylook, the awesome cool plug-in for Microsoft Outlook, based in Melbourne Australia.

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Dave Slusher talks to me about his role in the VERY early days of podcasting and explains why his site is called EVIL GENIUS CHRONICLES. We chat quite a lot about the directions, good, bad and ugly, that citizen media is going in. He also let’s me know what he thinks about TPN! If you […]

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Suw Charman is the Producer of BlogOn2005 which is happening at the Copa-Copacabana hotel in NEW YORK CITY on October 17 and 18, and she took some time our of her very busy schedule to chat with me about the agenda for the event. This is not going to be your usual “blogger love-in”, where […]

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You don’t have to wait any longer…our new system is all setup…all of our technology problems have been fixed (fingers crossed) and The Podcast Network is ready to re-enter the world of podcasting…bigger…better…and stronger than ever. Stay tuned for some really exciting news next week as we kick this thing back into gear, and I […]

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Hi TPN listeners and fans, Between the 29th of September and the 3rd of October, The Podcast Network web site will be undergoing some major server work that will increase (fingers crossed) both the speed and the reliability of the service you have come to love and cherish 😉 Access to the web site and […]

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Wow, the 50th G’DAY WORLD interview. How time flies. And I couldn’t be happier with the subject of our 50th show – John Buckman, Founder and CEO of Magnatune, the hippest record label on the planet. Magnatune is the record label with the motto “We Are Not Evil”. The backstory is something like this: John […]

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On #49 I’m joined by Professor Kevin Hindle. Kevin and I met about five years ago when he asked me to present to his Masters class about innovation happening in the e-business space and on my predictions for where the big opportunities lay in the early part of the 21st century. For the record, I […]

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Something a bit different today. No Mick (but you’re used to that by now) and no Cam. Well very little Cam, anyway. I hear you sigh in relief. My mate Sir Mike Seyfang aka The Fang in Adelaide recently had the chance to record a talk given by Sir Harry Kroto to a bunch of […]

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If you’ve never encountered Father Bob Maguire, you’re in for a genuine treat with this show. His official bio really doesn’t do him justice: Fr Maguire began parish work in the 1960’s. He Joined the Army Reserve In 1965 and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. During the Vietnam War, he led the Character […]

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Hey folks, While Mick and I were up at Microsoft Australia Tech Ed 2005 a couple of weeks ago, I managed to squeeze in a quick interview with Dr Neil Roodyn about MSN Virtual Earth. Dr Neil doesn’t actually work for Microsoft. He’s just what Tony Soprano would refer to as “a friend of ours”. […]

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Hey folks. I had to record something for you, some ground breaking news that appeared over the last couple of days so here it is!

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Jason S. Miller is a 38 y.o. American activist from Kansas who has been writing articles and blog posts articulating his concerns over the current American administration. We talk a lot about America’s current push for PAX AMERICANA and, in particular, the objectives of Rumsfeld/Cheney-lead “think tank” Project for the New American Century. Jason’s blog: […]

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Jeremy Hague and Paul Andrews are the Melbourne guys behind SKYLOOK, a new Outlook toolbar for Skype which they launched to the world a week ago. I think it’s pretty cool because, among other things, it automatically records Skype calls. Handy for a podcaster! Make sure you listen to the show because there is a […]

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One of the guys who is kicking major ass in the podcasting world is Todd Cochrane. Not only does Todd run the very popular GEEK NEWS CENTRAL podcast, but he also is the main dude behind the TECHPODCASTS directory. He lives in Hawaii with his family and is a busy guy. I thought that the […]

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Want to live forever? Okay, not forever, but let’s say… 1000 years? Think I’m kidding? Well I’m not. For 10 – 15 years I’ve been telling people that I believe the science to significantly extend the human lifespan would be here in my lifetime and that I intend to use it to try to live […]

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I had breakfast this morning with Mr Problogger himself, Darren Rowse. Darren is one of the highest earning professional bloggers out there. In May 2005 he made $10,000 from Google Adsense in a single month (and, yes, he shouted breakfast!!!)! He’s also the guy behind the following blogs: ProBlogger Digital Photography Blog LivingRoom As you’ll […]

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Welcome to the long-awaited interview with Mr Marketwatch himself – the inimitable Frank Barnako! We originally recorded an interview with Frank Jr back in March but the recording got screwed up beyond belief, but Frank was generous enough to give us a re-match. We chat with Frank about his career (although we didn’t get into […]

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Hey Folks! I’m very excited about this show, even more excited than usual. This week I’ve got an interview with my good mate Anthony Joseph! Now, Anthony, or AJ as he’s known by his many friends, was a colleague of mine at Microsoft. He worked there 15 years in all and was highly respected by […]

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JD Lasica is the author of “Darknet : Hollywood’s War Against the Digital Generation“, one of the co-founders of OurMedia.org and the author of the always-enjoyable New Media Musings blog. We caught up over Skype a few days ago to talk about the book, the old media vs civilization-as-we-know-it war, and why the darknet exists. […]

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A couple of weeks ago, leading Sydney AM radio host and journalist, Richard Glover, wrote an article for the Sydney Morning Herald which took a swipe at podcasting. I approached him to do an interview with me and, to his credit, he took up the offer. So I had a ten minute chat with him […]

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Most of us know Doug Kaye as the Barry-Whitesque-smooth-as-molasses voice emanating from the always-stimulating mp3s found at IT Conversations. Listening to the ITC recordings from POP!Tech 2004 were one of the motivations for me to start podcasting last year. Doug is one of the people in this world I am sincerely grateful for. So when […]

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I first met Amy Wohl over Skype about six months ago when Buzz Bruggeman was doing one of his “hey look I know a podcaster from Australia!” things, Skyping me from one of the 1000 or so conferences he must attend each year, to show someone how incredibly cool Skype is. I then met her […]

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WOW – what a day of generosity from you folks! This time I want to shout out to Frank Arrigo from Sydney and Benjamin Helps from No Address Provided! You guys are the best! As you all might know, Frank is one of the godfathers of G’Day World (the other being Buzz Bruggeman), and has […]

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Shel Israel is a God amongst insects. Recovering publicist. Blogger. Author. Raconteur (I’m actually not sure what that means, but I’m pretty sure Shel is one anyway… just sounds kinda right). Friend of the rich and famous. Champion of the poor and downtrodden. Hell, he was even featured in Forbes magazine earlier in the year. […]

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As you know, Mick and Cam have been full-time podcasters since January. In that time, they have continued to produce the G’Day World show as well as launch 22 other shows on The Podcast Network. We estimate that TPN now produces in the range of 100 hours of top quality audio programming every month! And […]

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Andy Singleton is the President of a software company in Needham, Mass. called Assembla. He recently wrote an article in IT Journal entitled “Is The Enterpise Software Licensing Business Dying?” which got a lot of attention on sites like Slashdot, so I thought we should get him on the show to discuss his ideas in […]

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Admit it – you know you want to be cool. Did you shed an empathetic tear when you watched Napoleon Dynamite? Did you punch a fist in the air when Mace Windu said “This party’s over! in SW:AOTC? And have you ruined your chance at a positive reincarnation by working for a dirty, money-grubbing, third-world […]

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OK…managed to put a number of 5-10 minute interviews with key people from the Blogtalk Downunder conference into one show. I talk with: Conference speaker – Trevor Cook Conference attendee – Michael Specht Special guest speaker – Rebecca Blood Special guest speaker – Mark Bernstein Conference organiser – James Farmer Conference organiser – Adrian Miles […]

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Between the 19th and 21st of May 2005, i was lucky enough to be invited as a guest to attend the Blogtalk Downunder conference being held in Sydney, Australia. Blogtalk Downunder was the first blogging conference to be held in Australia and had some interesting speakers…including….one of the few (if not only) Australian politician’s to […]

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G’DAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY WORRRRRRRRLD! I’m back attacking the mic Hype like a Viking Striking like a python Blaze like Jon I’ve got no idea what it means either. Ask Will Smith. Anyway,.. Cameron here and we’ve got a brand new show for ya. This show Mick and I have a special guest, W. Wayne Turmel aka “dub-dub” […]

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Another show without Mick! For no other reason than he’s been spending a lot of time travelling and offline lately. This show is with Ajax Garcia, frontman for LA hard rock outfit “The Napoleon Blown Aparts“. I bought a compilation album of their songs from Magnatune a couple of months ago and it’s getting a […]

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On May 11th I had the opportunity to interview Senator Andrew Bartlett, Deputy Leader of the Australian Democrats, about the Federal Budget. My goal with this show wasn’t to provide cutting edge political commentary – because I can’t. That’s wayyy out of my league (and I’m sure you’d all agree). The idea with this chat […]

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Welcome to the 30th episode of “On the Pod”. In this show, we switch roles and we interview the interviewer. Thats right, your intrepid G’day World hosts switch shoes and interview a journalist. “Which Journalist would be crazy enough to sit down with us for close to an hour” do i hear you say?? Well, […]

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If you are one of our listeners that grew up using computers in the late 70’s and early 80’s, our guest for this On the Pod needs no introduction. And if your not a geek, he is one of the few people that helped to revolutionise the desktop application space by being a co-creator of […]

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Ahhh…the joys of working on every one elses shows but our own…here is one of our recordings from early February were we spoke with Dave Gallo, Director of Special Projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts in the US. Dave talks to us for over an hour on the mysteries and wonders of […]

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In early February, Marc Orchant, our good friend and guest co-host over at The Tablet PC Show, put us onto Todd Sattersten…the man behind The More Space Project, and we just had to gt him onto the show. Listen in as Todd gives us an explanation on what the project is all about and the […]

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note: sorry for the quality of the first few minutes of this podcast…technical difficuties…a plug i think 0:00 Network Intro 0:15 Opening theme from Spruiker and show intro 1:45 We talk about why we haven’t done a show in a while 5:00 Let’s get The Podcast Network news out of the way 16:10 Fill […]

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In early February we spoke to Toby Bloomberg…the blogger behind Diva Marketing, founder of Bloomberg Marketing and Treasurer of the Pro-Bloggers Association. While we had Toby on the pod, we spoke about coffee, Bloomberg Marketing, the American Marketing Association, Robert Scoble, why companies should have a blog, the Diva Marketing blog, blogs and traditional marketing, […]

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How can one introduce a person like our 25th guest to appear On the Pod??? Howard Rheingold does not really need any introduction, and if he does, you should run out right now to your nearest bookstore (or go to Amazon on your browser of choice) and buy his last book “Smart Mobs”…nah…scratch that…go and […]

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We are slowly catching up on our backlog of shows, and in this release of “On the Pod” (recorded in early February) we talk to Ewan Spence all the way from Scotland. Ewan runs the “All About” group of websites (including AllAboutSymbian.com) and is also a published author…a little bit of disclosure here as well…since […]

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In our 23rd interview for “On the Pod” we talk to Hobart Swan, Manger of External Affairs at Mindjet who are the publishers of the best mind mapping software available (well..according to Cam and I it is)…MindManager. We talk with him about the start of MindJet and how he got involved with them, why Michael […]

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00:00 Sponsor advertisement: Frank Arrigo and show intro 02:40 Buzz Bruggeman, CEO, Activewords says G’Day 03:13 David Geller, CEO, WhatCounts Inc. BlogUnit provides a cost-effective, rack-ready appliance that is tuned to network security requirements and can be up-and-running in 15 minutes. Corporate bloggers find an easy-to-use and fully-featured platform to author, manage, measure, deliver, and […]

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In this “On the Pod” episode we talk with Michael Pusateri, VP of Engineering at the Disney Channel. I saw Michael at the 2004 O’Reilly’s eTech conference when he presented a great session on how the Disney Channel started using blogs, Wiki’s and RSS in his department close to two years ago. This is a […]

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We thought we would look inward into the world of podcasting for our next guest..and we came up with Michael Geoghegan. Michael is the man behind Reel Reviews…one of the most popular podcasts out in the wild and is all about the main passion of its host…movies. We chat to Michael about his love for […]

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Time to get a few more Australians on the show….so we got in touch with Des and said..”Des..how about it??”…and he gave us the thumbs up. Des Paroz has been working over at Acer Compters for nearly seven years.Whats he do?? Well…he looks after all of their e-commerce activities and IT Operations at the moment […]

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I have had to skip a couple of shows to get this interview out that we did with Canadian blogger, Darren Barefoot, due to the fact that we touch on Northern Voice conference during the interview, and the conference is on this week 🙂 Darren does a heap of stuff…he works for Capulet Communications during […]

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Happy Valentine’s Day for 2005 everybody…the team here at G’day World hope you and your special someone have a great day. A few weeks ago, we made an offer to anyone that wanted to record a special message for their valentine, that if they sent it in to us in time we would include it […]

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In our first “non-tech / non-geek” interview at G’day World be talk to US author, Staton Rabin. Staton came to Cam’s attention because of a book she wrote called “Betsy and the Emperor”, a young adults book about a friendship between Napoleon and Betsy Balcombe, a fourteen year old who lived on the island of […]

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So we haven’t really interviewed anyone in New York…who could we get to talk to who has done a “lot” for the blog clause that our listeners would find interesting??? Maybe someone who is in the PR game…hmmm….And then Buzz cames to the rescue…why not interview Steve Rubel??? Yeah…great idea… Steve is the Vice President […]

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Frank Arrigo = Mick + Cam = G’day World podcast Nice and cryptic for you??? Well…tune in to the interview we recorded with Frank Arrigo on the 17th of January to find out what it means. The Frank interview has by far been our biggest request from Australian developers…well…here he is guys and gals…for those […]

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In this, the 15th “On the Pod” interview, we chat with Marc Orchant. Marc is the blogger behind some of the best blogs on the topics of Office (at Office Zealot and Weblogs Inc), personal productivity and TabletPC’s. Marc talks to us about how he went from writing for Office Zealot to writing for Weblogs […]

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“The Podcast Network will be the best collection of podcast’s available anywhere that are managed and aggregated under the one roof.” Check it out…

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00:00 G’Day World intro with tune “D24” courtesy of Melbourne band Spruiker 00:20 The Australian National Anthem 02:00 What we did for Australia Day 04:45 Mick’s judging the Business Blogging Awards 09:00 Cameron’s infamous IM conversation 17:30 One of us is going to DEMO@15 20:15 The sponsorship auction 25:15 Rant about The Blog Business Summit […]

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Listen in as Cameron and I (the “I” i am referring to would be me…Mick 🙂 have a chat with the famous female German blogger and podcaster…Nicole Simon. Nicole talks to us about writing a blog and making a podcast in both German and English and what sort of material is available in both of […]

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You have the opportunity to be the Primary Sponsor of the Special DEMO@15 Edition of the G’Day World podcast by bidding for it at our eBay auction. From February 13 – 15, 2005, Cameron Reilly, co-founder and co-host of the infamous G’Day World podcast will be attending the DEMO conference () in Scottsdale, Arizona. While […]

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This is a podcast we have been trying to do for quite a while…listen in to this “On the Pod” episode and hear us interview the busiest little blogger around and a man that does a hell of a lot for the business blogging “cause”…Jeremy Wright. Jeremy is the guy that sold his blog, ensight.org, […]

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00:00 G’Day World intro with tune “D24” courtesy of Melbourne band Spruiker 00:30 Xmas: One of us went to the Gold Coast 02:30 The Religion podcast idea 05:00 Xmas: One of us went to Melbourne 06:00 Micks home office set-up 08:00 The MYOB scam 08:30 Micks new VOIP phone from Engin 13:30 Micks trying to […]

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Here it is….the interview we did in late December 2004 that i have received a steady stream of emails from people requesting to go up live welcome to On the Pod with Robert Scoble.god help our bandwidth 🙂 If you don’t know who Robert is shame on you. go and do a search on your […]

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Another great “On the Pod” with a shaker and mover from the US…this time we interview Om Malik who is the Senior Writer with Business 2.0 and author of “Broadbandits: Inside the $750 billion telecom heist“. Listen as we talk to Om about Arnold Schwarzenegger, cricket, his new book, Broadband, how the generation gap is […]

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In the words of Wayne and Garth…”we are not worthy”…. WOW…just before the end of 2004 we interviewed Doc Searls…co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto…senior editor of Linux Journal…proprietor of Doc Searls’ IT Garage…and allround omni-present godlike figure… 😉 Listen in as we talk to Doc about “markets as conversations”, linux, RSS and a host of […]

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This 34 minute edition of “On the Pod”, and our first show to go live in 2005 (even thogh it was recorded on 22nd December 2004), sees us have a chat with James Boyle, the William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at […]

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Welome to another episode of “On the Pod” in which we talk with Mark Jones, Deputy Managing Director at IDG Communications, which is probably the largest publisher of “IT” magazines in Australia and NZ. Mark also maintains the “filtered” blog where he writes about “technology, media and marketing grit”. In this episode we talk to […]

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G’day everyone…and a merry xmas to one and all from Mick and Cam at G’day World… Thnx for listening in to us ramble on about…well…stuff, and a big special thnx to all of you out there that we have interviewed or ambushed over the past few weeks as well as those of you that we […]

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00:00 G’Day World intro with tune “D24” courtesy of Melbourne band Spruiker 00:20 Mick and Cam ramble on about a little known Australian animal, ice cream, Mick’s last days at work, On the Pod and a few other things 09:00 The winners of the Dendy free passes 10:30 How to speak Aussie 13:30 Cam’s shrink […]

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“On the Pod” show number seven is a ten minute ambush of Jim Stewart who is the man behind Stew Art Media. Jim has been streaming media to the web since 1998 when he ran a daily technology news show that used to get 40,000 unique listeners per month during the dotcom era!!!!!! Holy crap!!!!! […]

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Tune in and listen to one of our longer interview sessions that we recorded last weekend (and our sixth “On the Pod” session) with Mike Vallender. Mike is currently Managing Director of successful CSIRO spin out Windlab Systems Pty Ltd, now a private company creating an international reputation as a commercial leader in wind energy […]

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Trying to get through the back-log of “On the Pod” sessions we have recorded over the past week means that i wil be posting up two “On the Pod” interviews today…one short ambush session and one longer interview. The ambush show we are putting up is a quick chat with Mitch Denny from Canberra. Mitch […]

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The podcasts just keep on coming this week… The short “ambush” podcasts are quite fun (and easy to do) so Cameron and I have been doing a few of them. We don’t want to overburden you guys with having to listen to us too much (yeah yeah…i know bandwidth ain’t cheap in Australia and a […]

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Another short “On the Pod”, and in this one Eric Rice gives us the low down on what happens when you serach for his name with the new Google Select tool…ouch…

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“On the Pod with William Luu” is the first “ambush” podcast we have recorded…listen in to hear our ten minute Skype conversation and then add “splatt” or “Cameron Reilly” to your Skype contact list…and wait for our call…the next time your skype rings…that could be us… Be afraid…be very afraid… 😉

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Hi everyone We have been floating an idea around for a while to do interviews with prominent tech people, bloggers/podcasters and all the “smart people” we know…or those who will allow us (and trust us) to record a conversation with them at least. The idea grew (or should I say took a life of its […]

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Unbelievably, out of the 500+ people who have downloaded the latest G’day World podcast, only THREE (that’s right, 3) have entered the competition to win the free double passes to see “The Motorcycle Diaries” kindly provided by our friends at Dendy Films. So… if you’d like to be among the first people to see this […]

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Show 3 – 10th December 2004 (1hr 12 min) Time   00:00 G’Day World intro with tune “D24” courtesy of Melbourne band Spruiker 02:01 Feedback from show #2 03:10 Our first competition – courtesy of Dendy Films 05:00 Mick’s big news 09:00 Special guest, Shane Williamson, tells us about his Stormtrooper outfit 17:00 Our thoughts […]

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If you like listening to the G’day World Podcast, feel free to download the button we have created and place it on your blog or web site with a link to this one or copy and paste the piece of code below and insert it on your page… […]

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Show 2 – 1st December 2004 (1hr 8 min) Time 00:00 G’Day World intro tune “D24” courtesy of Melbourne band Spruiker 00:10 Mick’s SPOT watch battery is not well 02:20 Comments and info from the first show 08:00 Cam’s new CD’s 08:50 Mick’s past life as a Tour/Production Manager 13:00 EPIC 2014 & Moore’s Law […]

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Show 1 – 26th November 2004 (32 min): Download: mp3 (15MB) Time 00:00 G’Day World intro tune “D24” courtesy of Melbourne band Spruiker 00:32 How hard it is to record both sides of a Skype call and the solution we found 02:30 A little bit about Mick & Cameron 05:43 How to speak Australian properly […]

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Finally…we need to dress it up a little, but the G’day World website is now open in a format close to what we wanted… We will be adding to it over the next couple of days with all the bits that a good blog/website should have, but if anyone has any tips to getting enclosure […]

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