A Parrot Squawking
By The Sporty Monk
Well, all right. Yes, it's more like a red-tailed black cockatoo squawking.
A Parrot SquawkingJun 06, 2019
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43:34
029 - Finito
That’s enough of that. End of podcast.
Jul 21, 201903:25
028 - Adam Goodes Part 2 of 2
In which we give Caroline Wilson the final word. (I couldn’t give anyone indigenous the final word, because this podcast’s zen is to never actively go looking for material, research style. It has to land in front of me.)
Jul 20, 201901:22:53
027 - Adam Goodes Part 1 of 2
Sporty breaks his zen for a moment and gets topical.
Jul 19, 201901:32:59
026 - Getting to know your wife in an arranged marriage
A resumption of play on a major theme early in this podcast, being one of “Indigenous Australia”. And here’s something: there’s a moment in this one where, for the first time ever, Sporty comes close to firing up a little! But not too much. His zen remains undisturbed throughout.
Jul 18, 201902:17:35
025 - Nas and Biggles 11 (liberalism as destruction)
Part of an episode that was so long that my podcast software couldn’t process it. So I broke it up. This is Part 11.
Jul 15, 201902:32:20
024 - Nas and Biggles 10 (liberalism as salvation)
Part of an episode that was so long that my podcast software couldn’t process it. So I broke it up. This is Part 10.
Jul 13, 201901:28:11
023 - Nas and Biggles 9 (Candace Owens concedes the word “liberal”)
Part of an episode that was so long that my podcast software couldn’t process it. So I broke it up. This is Part 9.
Jul 13, 201901:00:03
022 - Nas and Biggles 8 (the best of all possible Australias)
Part of an episode that was so long that my podcast software couldn’t process it. So I broke it up. This is Part 8.
Jul 12, 201901:45:01
021 - Nas and Biggles 7 (black and white spinning out of control)
Part of an episode that was so long that my podcast software couldn’t process it. So I broke it up. This is Part 7.
Jul 11, 201952:52
020 - Nas and Biggles 6 (the bishop at Meghan’s and Harry’s wedding)
Part of an episode that was so long that my podcast software couldn’t process it. So I broke it up. This is Part 6.
Jul 11, 201949:52
019 - Nas and Biggles 5 (the dark side of that jump Europe got on the rest of the world)
Part of an episode that was so long that my podcast software couldn’t process it. So I broke it up. This is Part 5.
Jul 11, 201901:20:07
018 - Nas and Biggles 4 (Wogs versus Aussies)
Part of an episode that was so long that my podcast software couldn’t process it. So I broke it up. This is Part 4.
Jul 11, 201901:00:26
017 - Nas and Biggles 3 (the power of exclusion)
Part of an episode that was so long that my podcast software couldn’t process it. So I broke it up. This is Part 3.
Jul 11, 201901:17:08
016 - Nas and Biggles 2 (choosing between leprosy and smallpox)
Part of an episode that was so long that my podcast software couldn’t process it. So I broke it up. This is Part 2.
Jul 11, 201901:44:23
015 - Nas and Biggles 1 (happy Independence Day you bastards!)
Part of an episode that was so long that my podcast software couldn’t process it. So I broke it up. This is Part 1.
Jul 11, 201916:11
014 - Science, faith and Nas
A utilitarian perspective.
Jul 01, 201901:46:00
013 - The ignorance of Kanye West
Which may well, to an idiot like me, present as wisdom!
Jun 28, 201901:30:02
012 - The Big Dance (monarchies by divine rule)
Episode 1 in a series of episodes on The Big Dance that is the world’s cultures, political systems and so on.
Jun 27, 201901:43:02
011 - Mabo
Eddie Mabo.
Jun 26, 201953:26
010 - Agriculture versus hunter gathering
It was never going to be pretty.
Jun 26, 201902:02:20
009 - Alexander in Australia
A what-if!
Jun 24, 201958:50
008 - Fishing off Hamilton Island in 300 BC
And getting into a bit of mental arithmetic at the same time.
Jun 24, 201901:29:36
007 - The impact of Western Science on Indigenous Beliefs
Introducing Harley, my daughter.
Jun 23, 201901:06:44
006 - The Rainbow Snake is Dead
Or so, by inference, reckoned Frederick Nietzsche.
Jun 22, 201901:32:57
005 - The indigenous boy who climbed the rock
His elders told him not to. But one morning he got up before dawn and climbed it anyway. Partly because the oldies told him not to. But also because telling a kid to not climb the only thing climbable inside a hundred miles of flat, boring nothing ... well that’s just cruelty, isn’t it?
Jun 22, 201901:25:03
004 - The Illuminati, the History Wars and Indigenous Rights
And it’s all happening on a steam train hurtling down the side of a mountain far too fast. And it’s shaking and rattling and bits are falling off it. And oh no, there’s no driver! Or so suggests my wife’s uncle.
Jun 21, 201901:36:52
003 - Kanye and Kunek
On the benefits of keeping yourself neutral and bland in public.
Jun 12, 201901:08:28
002 - Charlie holds the Sporty Monk to account
And gives him a score of five out of ten.
Jun 08, 201957:12
001 - Zen swagger, social construction and Orazio Fantasia
In which Sporty begins to explore his zen.
Jun 07, 201901:49:21
000 - Babylon Rising (by way of a prologue)
In which we take a sample of Episode 14, which happens to have the title "Science, faith and Nas".
Jun 06, 201943:34