The Black Hole Podcast: Recent Episodes
Mehershad
TBH Beyond Borders is a one of a kind student run podcast that that features honest conversations with students from different countries and backgrounds about their nation's' history, culture, people, as well as their personal experiences as an International Student. The podcast focuses on cultivating a sense of community amongst international students based on shared experiences, promotes diversity and celebrates inspiring student stories.
The Black Hole is a news show based in 2100's on the web-streaming channel “...and chill" (a much cheaper alternative for Netflix - especially if you don't care about the quality.) After a mere total of nineteen episodes on air and consistently low ratings, the hosts were forced to change their completely visual show into a strictly audio medium
Why both these series are in the same place is frankly beyond me.
Full video: https://youtu.be/bJRN_SGQhng
In this episode I'm joined by Naomi Khor! Naomi and I talk about her experiences being the Vice President of the QUT Malaysian Student association, and a student doing her bachelors degree in Creative industries. Naomi also talks about MC-ing and co-project-managing the event 'Citra' - a one day festival that promotes Malaysian culture in queensland. Naomi also shares her inspiring journey of having an assignment she worked on be taken forward by 'Economic Development of Queensland' as a augmented reality art project to be implemented in Northshore, Brisbane. We also talk about the importance of authentic food as international students, and Naomi gives us her best Malaysian food hacks!
This podcast was produced by Mehershad Wadia, Yonas Ngaturi, Ameya Deshmukh, Rachel Gloriosa and Atika Dhyah with the support of Paul Smith (UQ School of Communications and Arts) and Study Brisbane.
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In this episode I'm joined by Rohan Das, and we talk about Indians in Kenya, Rohan's involvement in a youth organisation "Stand up Shout out" and making an anti-poaching film, his time in Mumbai and learning acting, as well as his work in Oncology research in Queensland, Australia. We also speak to some of Rohan's fellow YouthLab co-founders, Georgia and Pritesh. YouthLab is a non profit organisation that supports local youth by providing leadership opportunities, promoting higher education and supporting students in embracing one's culture and true identity. Georgia, Pritesh and Rohan also discuss the synergy between the friends turned co-founders, future vision for their project, and Australian slags.
Video: https://youtu.be/lm-nc8eoDj4
In this episode, I'm joined by Timothy Harm, host of Fresh Crew Radio on 4EB 98.1 FM and co-founder of UQ South Pacific Islander Association. Tim and I talk about similarities between himself and international students when it comes to finding an identity and settling into a new culture and environment. We also discuss Climate change in Pacific Islands, Tim's experience as a student, not being able to identify with a specific country (and how MIA's Paper Planes resonates with his experience), challenges that students from Pacific Islands face - and advice that Tim has for transitioning smoothly. Tim also sheds light on how he wants the Pasifika community to be seen on the map, and for Pacific Islanders to be more fairly represented.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmuUZL8Vtc0
Hello hello hello, TBH Beyond Borders #Season2 is here!!
In this episode I am joined by Ocean Cheung, a former Brisbane International Student Ambassador for Hong Kong who was also recently awarded Multicultural Queensland's 2019 Outstanding Young Achiever award. We talk about entrepreneurship, international student community, employability, as well as Ocean's experiences with his own start up, Start-up Interns as well as obtaining a Queensland Government IET fund.
We took our audio-only show we started 3 years ago and made it into a video show, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5sNvQpmWI4
Now for some reason an audio-versio of the video-show which was originally audio-only is uploaded back to Soundcloud. Just in case you are interested in exclusively hearing a video show based on an originally audio-only podcast.
After wishing Ritviq the best for his future endeavors, host still without a life, Mehershad, returns to the podcast after having found nothing to do in the seven month break. This podcast covers news from the week conveniently spaced with obnoxious ads because that's just how showtime works, honey. Guest political correspondent, and person who sounds just like Mehershad, Politic Roshan educates about the current nuances in elections and politics caused by social media and bots.
Yorkshire's finest movie reviewers (citation needed) turn their eager eyes and ears to Ridley Scott's seminal epic Legend, a film so meh that the world remained decidedly un-shaken by its existence. With a cast of giants (Tom Cruise) and other people, Legend might be the film to set the world alight with a contemporary viewing. Or not. Listen to find out, I suppose...
Disagree? Feel the need to validate your existence by pointing out the glaring mistakes that we missed? Contact us on twitter... @theblackholepod. Want to vent in a form greater than 140 characters or want to point out in awkward detail why we are not good reviewers? Try email... theblackholepod@gmail.com
In a moment of uncharacteristic irony, The Black Hole Podcast reviews the 1979 Disney film The Black Hole. John and Foxy have seen the film before (when they were young, callow people). Now, in the prime of their lives, the leading Yorkshire movie reviewers (unverified) take on a film that with the best of intentions, is pretty average. Will they find jewels within? Will they find within a wonder and magic that has been lost to these times? Probably not, but they get to over-analyse a crappy film, which is always fun.
Disagree? Feel the need to validate your existence by pointing out the glaring mistakes that we missed? Contact us on twitter... @theblackholepod. Want to vent in a form greater than 140 characters or want to point out in awkward detail why we are not good reviewers? Try email... theblackholepod@gmail.com
After being in the closet for so long with our last episode, The Black Hole podcast is back with it's new episode trying to tackle extremely novel, innovative and never-heard-before-of problems from 2117 - skin colour and racial discrimination. As such, the top story features blue-supremacist planet of TOBP and a lobbyist for IndigOlay, and spoiler alert, things did blue out of proportion.
In the Fifth episode of The Black Hole, the hosts recap the week and discuss the various New Year's Resolutions that organizations and companies have taken up. The top story this week revolves around the LGBTQ community in India, wherein, tired of societal backwardness, have decided to start up their own religion - because everything is allowed in India if you do it the name of religion.
On the last issue of the year 2116, we try to recap the major events that took place as we try to reflect on what possibly seems like the most depressing year in Human history. As such, History scholar, Archana Purani Singh joins us to answer the one question that everyone is asking about 2116, "Where did we all go wrong?"
The Black Hole - a news show where 15 minutes seems like an entire week.
After a mere total of nineteen episodes on air, the hosts of web-streaming channel "..And Chill" were forced to change their completely visual show into a strictly audio medium. In this first Issue of The Black Hole, they throw light on everything that happened that week, as well as this week's top story - The iPhonetization Plan.