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Episode 8 — Another Extended Break (Which we promise not to do so often)

June 19, 2015

We’re back! Again! We apologise for our inability to stick to a schedule, we promise we’re going to try really hard not to break this promise this time. John would also like to apologise for uhming and ahhing so much in this episode, but you can be sure that his uhming and ahhing bothers him a lot more.
Oh, yes, we talked about stuff. Including a really, really, super sexy topic.
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Show Notes
Carly Fiorina thinks the Chinese can’t innovate. This from a woman who drove HP into the ground.
Ariana Miyamoto, the 2015 Miss Universe Japan winner
Adam Goodes, Indigenous Australia footballer and all-round awesome dude.
“White Australia is so terrified of Aboriginal people that an imaginary spear still has them crying 3 days after it didn’t hit them.”

Also from Aamer Rahman, here is his editorial in New Matilda about the “controversy” surrounding Adam Goodes’ celebration.
Waleed Aly is a lecturer on Politics at the University of Melbourne and the host of Channel 10’s The Project. Here he is on ABC’s Offsiders talking about the reaction to Adam Goodes’ on field celebration.
And to put it in perspective, here are some Italian racists throwing bananas at players Kevin Constant and Nigel de Jong.
“The Irish basically guaranteed everything — not only savings and checking accounts, but also the bonds that banks sold to investors.”

The Sydney Morning Herald’s article on housing affordability in Sydney.
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The town of Fudai, Iwate was the town that survived the tsunami largely because of the seawall that the late Mayor Koutoku Wamura had pushed for.
By the way, his name is KOUTOKU WAMURA, not KOTAKU, as is widely reported. It took a fucking gaming blog to work that shit out.
Bonus Material
Adam Goodes speaking at a press conference after he was racially abused by a young s...