# Marc Fennell

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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…

Jon Ronson, the Manosphere and a Castle

A castle sits in the streets of American suburbia and from the outside it looks bizarre. But what’s on the inside is even weirder...  A dog named Cerberus, a basement nightclub with poles and cages, and a room full of princess costumes.  Jon Ronson (Author, The Castle) speaks to Marc Fennell (Stuff…

S1E7: Dads vs The Manosphere | Marc Fennell

A simple parenting hack to keep kids entertained with Minecraft and Pokémon videos on the living room TV can take a dark turn in just twenty minutes. Left to its own devices, the YouTube autoplay algorithm can seamlessly pivot from innocent gaming streams to Joe Rogan lecturing on weak men, plungin…

INTERVIEW: What really goes on inside the 'manosphere'?

What's attracting Aussie guys into the manosphere? It's a question investigative journalist Marc Fennell has set out to answer in his new ABC documentary The State of Man. Marc's journey started in his own home, after his young sons stumbled upon Joe Rogan while watching Minecraft videos on YouTube…

Your AM Headlines + How The Manosphere Finds Aussie Boys

HEADLINES Digital duty of care laws expected in parliament today Financial abusers could be liable for victims’ debts Jailed woman wins fight to freeze her eggs Russia strikes Kyiv despite energy ceasefire South Australia gets its own Michelin Guide Plus, journalist Marc Fennell has been i…