# Marc Fennell

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Birds 1 - Humans 0

In 1932 Australia sent soldiers with machine guns to stop 20,000 emus rampaging through wheat fields.  What followed was a national embarrassment and earned the emus a reputation as the victors of one of history's strangest wars. Dr Ruth Morgan tells Marc Fennell (Stuff The British Stole) the wild …

MARC FENNELL: How AI Is Already Changing Us

Abbie has made it well known on this podcast that she is not a fan of generative AI and LLMs. But, as journalist Marc Fennell found in his new podcast series Unreal, AI is already fundamentally changing the way we relate to each other and understand ourselves. Abbie and Marc talk about why he wante…

The mythical football war

It’s called The Football War and raged for just 100 hours. It’s a catchy name for a conflict supposedly sparked by a World Cup qualifier game.  But behind the catchy title, and away from the football pitch lies a deeper, darker history about politics, poverty, power and a war that claimed thousands…

Howard bingo and pollies on pods

It's Question Time! But first, Fran and PK catch-up on what's been an "intense and wild" week. PK is still mad she didn't get to choose George Michael as her expert subject on Mastermind, but host and friend of the quiz show Marc Fennell dials in to commiserate and offer some advice. And as Fran re…

The Pig War: Hogging the border

A pig trots over an invisible border, wandering into a potato farmer's garden. It's not the first time it's trespassed but it is the last. The farmer takes his gun off the wall and shoots it dead.  But what the farmer didn't realise was that by pulling that trigger, he set off one of the tensest mi…

The Pastry War: Half-baked diplomacy

A ransacked bakery. A wildly inflated bill. A demand so absurd it should have been laughed out of the room. Instead it triggered warships.  In 1838, France used a pastry chef's grievance to justify a blockade, a siege, and an assault on Mexico. But was the baker's claim ever really the reason? Or j…

Australia's secret slave trade

From the mid-1800s, more than 62,000 Pacific Islanders were kidnapped, tricked or coerced into labour on Queensland's sugar and cotton plantations. Ryan Butta (Author, Blackbirding) and Emelda Davis, whose grandfather was taken from Vanuatu as a boy, tell Marc Fennell (Stuff The British Stole) how …

The US-Canada border fight over a pig

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 now Washington State and Vancouver Island, an American farm…

Chatting People's Sexiest Man Alive (long list), The Akinator & Laneway lineup

Mitch has wrapped up his sting on the radio and Grace has somehow ended up with a second foster dog and you know what??? Three dogs is objectively too many dogs. We chat about Taylor Swift reaching out to Bebe Rexha after the 2019 Grammys, Raye saying she's NOT dating Michael B Jordan, Anne Hathaw…

Marc Fennell chats AI, The Traitors & why we should start Marvel from scratch

Marc Fennell is on the show!! You may know him from Stuff the British Stole, Mastermind, or his latest Audible original Unreal: When AI Becomes Us. His latest project explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping society, grief, and human relationships. It's not pro-ai or anti-ai, it's a deep d…