Podcast Episodes

What happens if Trump takes over the Federal Reserve?

US President Donald Trump has set his sights on the Federal Reserve, his unprecedented threat to fire the Fed Chair Jerome Powell and replace him with someone more willing to lower interest rates sen…

Published on 1 month ago

The time the US Navy teamed up with the Mafia

Yes you read that right. It's a wild story from the latest series of No One Saw it Coming, a show about people, objects, and accidents that changed the course of history. Today, Marc Fennell joins Ma…

Published on 1 month ago

Weighing up Ozempic

This episode originally aired in September 2023.

For a century, society has bullied and shamed people into trying to lose weight, without much result. Is the century-long search for a weight loss drug…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

The Montana Mountain King and a conspiracy to clone

Last year, environment reporter Peter de Kruijff stumbled on the case of 81-year-old rancher Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, who was sentenced to six months in jail for a truly bizarre crime. He orchestrate…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

How dodgy data sent China's economy off course

This episode originally aired in August 2023.

How do you plan for a country when you don’t even know how many people live there? That’s the problem China faced after decades of dodgy population data a…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Florida Man Invades Venezuela

While working on last Thursday’s episode, Matt had the very sad but familiar experience of cutting one of his favourite parts out of the script.

It’s the bizarre story of a group of American mercenari…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Why Trump is blowing up boats off Venezuela

The U.S. military has now attacked three boats off the coast of Venezuela in as many weeks. On the surface, it’s hard to see exactly what the administration is hoping to gain out of this. But when yo…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

This can't be good for our brains

It’s been almost two weeks since we woke up to the news of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. If you were online that morning, you probably saw rolling updates, speculation, conspiracy theories, and graph…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Charlie Kirk’s murder sparks calls for revenge

In the days since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the internet has been awash with conflicting information about the assassin’s ideological motivations. Until recently, most people understood that…

Published on 2 months ago

The Kurdish Fox and the Strawberry

While researching our last episode on the bizarre wave of Iran-banked anti-semitic attacks in Australia and around the world, Matt ended up somewhere unexpected… Swedish TikTok. He was intrigued (and…

Published on 2 months ago