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Bottom Faults in the RADIOTHON After Glow

Wavy Dave, Sex Discordant Kookaburras, Gravitational Mobility, Marine Playtime, MotoRap, Intraplate Earthquakes, X Marks the Clot, and Space News.

Hosts: Max, Issy, Peta, and Gabe (and Maximillian)

Know Idea is your weekly dose of science on 4ZZZ for over 10 years! All things space & time, environment, health, tech, psychology plus everything else in-between. Recorded live at 4ZZZ on Wednesday 10-12 in Meanjin/Brisbane.

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📸 ID: Under a bottom shaped moon a earthquaked cracked highway runs through the centre of the image with a Ford Mustang parked on the side of the road. In the foreground is Wavy Dave, with a Kookaburra holding the Intersex Inclusive Progress Pride Flag flying at a Red Bellied Black Snake. At the bottom is the text Know Idea with the 4zzz Podcast logo in the top right.

Produced and recorded by Max for Know Idea at 4zzz in Fortitude Valley, Meanjin/Brisbane Australia on Turrabul and Jaggera Country and edited by Tobi for podcast distribution for Creative Broadcasters Limited.

Backing Music provided by Pixabay from soundbay and Rockot

RADIOTHON 2025: 50 Years of Zed and Science

1975 Special; Plastic Found in Skagerack, Replicating Godden and Baddeley, Monty Hall Problem, School Comfort, Pulling Science Out of The Sand, Peta's Updated Shark Primer, and Cornforth's Nobel. Space News and 50 Years of Science.

Hosts: Max, Issy, Peta, and Gabe

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📸 ID: Story Bridge in Brisbane Australia taken in 1975 on a postcard with 'Mary Mann and Donald Davis with a scanning electron microscope in the National Museum of Natural History entomology collections, 1975' on a CRT TV in the centre. In the background is asea filled with plastic refuse. and in the foreground at the bottom is the text Know Idea with the 4zzz Podcast logo in the top right.

Produced and recorded by Max at 4zzz in Fortitude Valley, Meanjin/Brisbane Australia on Turrabul and Jaggera Country. Audio and Cover Image edited by Tobi for podcast distribution for Creative Broadcasters Limited.

Scrumping Amnemonemomnes

Rubber Tentacle Illusion, Scrumping Apes from Chimps, Nine Armed Tarantulas, Adapive Amnemonemomnes, MotoRap, Farming The Plague, Space News, and RADIOTHON NEXT WEEK!

Hosts: Max, Issy, Peta, and Gabe (and Maximillian)

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📸 ID: From Left to Right is; a skull wearing a mask, a chimpanzee with nine arms holding a beer and a pencil, and a dolphin wearing a beard. In the background is the ZED50 logo and the Know Idea and 4zzz Podcast logo are at the bottom centre and top right foreground respectively.

Produced and recorded by Max at 4zzz in Fortitude Valley, Meanjin/Brisbane Australia on Turrabul and Jaggera Country. Audio and Cover Image edited by Tobi for podcast distribution for Creative Broadcasters Limited.

Backing Music from Pixabay with Ievgen Poltavskyi composing Jazz Music and Comedy Music.

REWIND2: The B Side

REWINDs of Electroreception ­In Bottlenose Dolphins, Spider-Mic, How Goannas Are Saving Sheep, Mussels Aid Lobster and Crabs, and Scotts Hiding in Stonehenge, with MotoRap and Space News

Host: Max

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📸 ID: Max is sitting on the 4zzz Red Couch with as flying fish over a beach in the background and an oversized goanna looking at him over the top of the right side of the couch. At the bottom is the text Know Idea with the 4zzz Podcast logo in the top right.

Produced and recorded by Max at 4zzz in Fortitude Valley, Meanjin/Brisbane Australia on Turrabul and Jaggera Country. Audio and Cover Image edited by Tobi for podcast distribution for Creative Broadcasters Limited.

Background Music from Pixabay by; Geoff Harvey, Brentin Davis, Grand_Project, Denis Pavlov, Free_Audio_Library, and Sergii Pavkin

REWIND: Space Ceiling

Motorap and Space News with REWINDs of Fishy Parenting, Manifesting Height, Space Moss, Shark Teeth, Low Ceilings And Exam Scores, and Space Food: Aroma is King

Hosts: Max, and Issy (and Maximillian)

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📸 ID: Max is sitting on the 4zzz Red Couch with an alien moss from mars on his shoulder, and two parent cichlid's talking to their child cichlid behind him. At the bottom is the text Know Idea with the 4zzz Podcast logo in the top right.

Produced and recorded by Max at 4zzz in Fortitude Valley, Meanjin/Brisbane Australia on Turrabul and Jaggera Country. Audio and Cover Image edited by Tobi for podcast distribution for Creative Broadcasters Limited.

Backing Music by Geoff Harvey - Silent Whispers, Music Video - Aquatic Downtime, Sergii Pavkin - Interstellar Space, Amir Firouzfard - Deep Sea Sonar LiFi, SPmusic - On The Runway, and Sergii Pavkin - Scientific Symbiosis from Pixabay.

Colour Coded

REWIND: Red Wine Headaches, Why?, Vibrant Virility in Guppy Genetics, Dr Robot(SRT-H), Bagging Blue in Sharks, Sidebar: Ancient Blue, MotoRap, F1 Movie Rundown, Concert Synchrony, and Space News

Hosts: Max, Issy, and Peta (and Maximillian)

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Produced and recorded by Max for Know Idea at 4zzz in Fortitude Valley, Meanjin/Brisbane Australia on Turrabul and Jaggera Country and edited by Tobi for podcast distribution for Creative Broadcasters Limited.

Backing music provided by Pixabay and artists ONION_ALL_STARS, Oleg Fedak, Amaksi, and Jerome Chauvel.

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Hot Tubs are Better, ❤️ With Emojis, Shark-Etiquette, Lyssavirus: Don't touch bats, MotoRap, Bovine F1 Science, Teeth in a Dish AKA Grinding Phytoliths, and Space News

Hosts: Max, Issy, Peta, and Gabe (and Maximillian)

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📸 ID: In the foreground are two emoji's in a hot tub, a hands off sing over a flying bat emoji on the left, and a smiling shrug emoji sporting human teeth with green leafy matter stuck between them. In the background a herd of cows run down the Melbourne Formula 1 track while a Bullet Bill with a Pacific Sleeper Shark tail flies through them. The text Know Idea is at the bottom with the 4zzz Podcast logo in the top right.

Produced and recorded by Max at 4zzz in Fortitude Valley, Meanjin/Brisbane Australia on Turrabul and Jaggera Country. Audio and Cover Image edited by Tobi for podcast distribution for Creative Broadcasters Limited.

Backing Busic provided by zec53 and Ivan Traveso from Pixabay

Dreaming of Trichloroisocyanuric Acid

Flipping Shark Tailbone, Clean Gold Mining, Intolerant Dreams, Orca Feeding Friendship, MotoRap, Zoborg Pied Piper, Space News, and 1995: "That'll do pig."

Hosts: Max, Issy, Peta, and Gabe (and Maximillian)

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📸 ID: Centre Background is a Zophobas morio beetle with electronics attached climbing a cliff wall with melting electronics in the lower background. A suited man with a shark head in the top left, with an orca wearing a chefs hat offering fish in it's mouth. on the right is a child wrapped in a blanket dreaming of evil cheese and an evil baguette. In the foreground is the Know Idea and 4zzz Podcast logos in the bottom and the top right respectively.

Produced and recorded by Max at 4zzz in Fortitude Valley, Meanjin/Brisbane Australia on Turrabul and Jaggera Country. Audio and Cover Image edited by Tobi for podcast distribution for Creative Broadcasters Limited.

Backing Music by Praz Khanal, Mikhail Smusev, and Andrii Poradovskyi from Pixabay.

QS Ranking... Updated

Imported Seafood Spead, Message in a Bubble, 2026 QS Ranking, MotoRap, Partner Pamper with Allokelpering, Celestial Navigating Bogong Moths, and Space News

Hosts: Max, Peta, and Gabe

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📸 ID: An imported shrimp in a glass of ice is in the foreground with a pod of Orcas swimming through a kelp forest in the background. The Text know Idea is at the bottom with a Bogong Moth sitting in the 4zzz Podcast logo in the top right.

Produced and recorded by Max at 4zzz in Fortitude Valley, Meanjin/Brisbane Australia on Turrabul and Jaggera Country and edited by Tobi for podcast distribution for Creative Broadcasters Limited.

Background Music from 38:25 to 38:41 by Samuel F. Johanns from Pixabay

WAFT - Wacky-waving Arm-Flailing Turbines

BftEvRfEmN, Ancient Porpoise Poetry, BTWs, Sugary Cucumbers Fight Cancer, MotoRap, Halo History, NEW Jumping Spiders, and Space News

Hosts: Max, Issy, Peta, and Gabe (and Maximillian)

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Know Idea is your weekly dose of science on 4ZZZ for over 10 years! All things space & time, environment, health, tech, psychology plus everything else in-between. Recorded live at 4ZZZ on Wednesday 10-12 in Meanjin/Brisbane.

Produced and recorded by Max at 4zzz in Fortitude Valley, Meanjin/Brisbane Australia on Turrabul and Jaggera Country and edited by Tobi for podcast distribution for Creative Broadcasters Limited.

Backing Music provided by StudioKolomna and zec53 from Pixabay