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  • The Bananas in Pyjamas’ doomed trip to Moscow

    October 26, 2026 · 26 min

    In 1998, the Bananas in Pyjamas visited Moscow as part of a promotional tour. Things did not go to plan. Today, Eric Campbell, the ABC’s Russia correspondent at the time, joins Matt to try to piece together what really happened. Eric also…

  • Lenin's WWII goo adventure

    October 24, 2026 · 25 min

    Surprise! We're popping in on a Sunday to answer your questions, many of which were about goo and the Canadian state of Alberta this month. Kara also tells Matt an incredible story from Russia during World War II — the Weekend at…

  • Is Trump going to bomb the bond market?

    October 21, 2026 · 29 min

    Donald Trump recently said that if his treasury secretary can’t get bond yields down, the next move might be the military. It sounds absurd, but the US bond market is the quiet foundation underneath almost every price in the global…

  • My name is Inigo Jones. Prepare for rain.

    October 19, 2026 · 24 min

    Before we knew about El Niño, La Niña and the other patterns scientists now use to make long-range weather forecasts, there were men like Inigo Jones, whose prediction methods owed more to astronomy than to meteorology. Farmers…

  • The apocalyptic El Niño we didn't see coming

    October 14, 2026 · 27 min

    Toxic smoke haze is blanketing Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines, after weeks of fires in Indonesia. In central Chile, flash flooding has trapped people on their roofs, and already Australia’s spring is unusually hot. Scientists have…

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  • A day out at the Hezbollah theme park

    October 12, 2026 · 19 min

    Over recent decades, Hezbollah has become deeply embedded in southern Lebanon. It runs everything from hospitals and schools to infrastructure projects, and even has its own theme park. Naturally, when an email landed in our inbox from…

  • Putin's billion-dollar quest for immortality

    October 7, 2026 · 26 min

    A hot mic caught Putin telling Xi that organ transplants could bring immortality. It's not just talk, and it's not new either: Russian leaders have spent nearly a century chasing eternal life, with some genuinely bizarre results. Follow If…

  • The US-Canada border fight over a pig

    October 5, 2026 · 23 min

    With tensions between Donald Trump and Mark Carney heating up, it's the perfect excuse to revisit another time things got tense on the US-Canadian border… back before Canada was Canada. In June 1859, on a small island wedged between what's…

  • Can AI predict the future?

    September 30, 2026 · 26 min

    The US-Israel war with Iran. The UK leadership kerfuffle. Who’d finish the top of the ladder in the AFL. At the start of 2026 none of these things would have felt all that predictable. But as Matt experiments with AI stuck in the recent…

  • Thatcher's Falklands PSYOP radio station

    September 28, 2026 · 21 min

    The 1982 Falklands War wasn't just fought on land and at sea, but also over the airwaves. Radio was part of the strategy on both sides of the conflict, with Britain launching its own covert radio station as a form of 'grey' psychological…

  • Are the UK and Argentina about to go to war…again?

    September 23, 2026 · 28 min

    In 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, and Britain took them back by force. But it was messier behind the scenes than it looked… leaked tapes, real and fake, revealed Ronald Reagan secretly urging Margaret Thatcher not to…

  • Why there are abandoned tunnels under Dallas

    September 21, 2026 · 18 min

    We love a tunnel on this show. A few months ago Kara told Matt all about the FBI's secret tunnel under the Russian embassy in Washington. Today Matt takes Kara back underground, digging into the rise and fall of the pedway: an…

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