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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

Talking Bubbles

Talking Bubbles, Super Worms, Car Science, Deep Dark(er) Depths, MotoRap, Plastics Food Fate, Position Matters in Baboon March, Judys Gorging Gut, and Space News.

Hosts: Max, Issy, Peta, and Gabe

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📸 ID: Under the Know Idea Logo is a whale swimming in a dark ocean and blowing speech bubbles with the largest containing an image of a worm wearing a super man costume. On the Right is the rear lights of a black car with very bright break lights, in the background is a sead of plastic waste, and in the top right corner behind the super worm is the 4zzz Podcast logo.

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 from Peter Nesterouk, Rockot, and Elijah K from Pixabay.

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.

Spontaneous Gargalesis

The Giggling Gargalesis Enigma, Frogs Fighting Fungus by Fornicating, AI Validated Science, Fish Feeding Fren...dship?, MotoRap, Etna Serves Stromboli, and Curious Cockatoos

Hosts: Max, Issy, Peta, and Gabe

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📸 ID: A Tiger Shark and Whitetip Shark bob on the ocean around the text Know Idea, on the grass behind them is an Alpine Frog with two mushrooms (left), a cockatoo landing on a park drinking fountain (middle) and a young girl laughing while getting tickled by a pink feather. Mt Etna is errupting in the distance behind the trees in the background. The 4zzz Podcast logo is in the top right corner.

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.

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.

Chimps Wiping and Jelly Steering

Shrinking In The Heat, Vibing For Nectar, Speed Eating, Cyborg Jelly, MotoRap, Naughty Naughty Dog, Chimps Wipe (sometimes), and Space News

Hosts: Max, Peta, and Gabe

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📸 ID: A chimpanzee chews on a leaf with a bandaged hand next to a roll of toilet paper in front of the topical herbal flowers Arnica and Calendula. Ton the right is a speaker in front of a range of snapdragon folwers with a large bee. On the bottom in the water is the clownfish Marlin from the movie Finding Nemo looking through a mangifying glass on the left and a jellyfish wired up to electrodes with a steering platform on it's head on the right. In the foreground is the text Know Idea under the water at the bottom and the 4zzz Podcast logoin the top right.

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 by Alex Guz, Julius H., Peter Nesterouk, and Villatic Music from Pixabay

Wrinkly Science for Monkeynappers

Peripheral Processing in Cyborg Cephalpods, Monkeynapping, Purdubik, Lighting Up Fishing Pots, MotoRap, N64 Resident Evil 2 Rundown, Wrinkling Repeatability, and Space News

Hosts: Max, Issy, Peta, and Gabe

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📸 ID:  Capuchin monkey pushing a pink wooden pram with a baby howler monkey in it at the water play park. The Know Idea and 4zzz Podcast logos are in the bottom and top right respectively. 

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 and edited by Tobi for podcast distribution for Creative Broadcasters Limited.

Bang Your Drum

Peta’s Peeves: Golf (Parkinsons), REWIND: Mouth Mouse, Flamingo Feeding Fashion, Waving at Cuttlefish, MotoRap, Chimps Got Rhythm, and Space News.

Hosts: Max, Issy, Peta, and Gabe

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📸 ID: A cuttlefish waves at a flamingo in the foreground, a dental set of teeth is worked on by a mechanical arm with mechanical parts and a golf club sits by a golf ball on the left and right respectively and a chimpanzee in a costume beats on drums in the background. The Know Idea and 4zzz Podcast logos are in the bottom and top right respectively.

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 and edited by Tobi for podcast distribution for Creative Broadcasters Limited.

Two Plastic Easter Eggs Filled with Science

3D Printed Seafood, Bonding Over A Fruity Tipple in Chimps, Topical Inner Ear Infection Treatment, Oyster Terroir, Peta’s Pet Peeves: Clapping at Concerts and a Sensorimotor Synchronising Seal, Double MotoRap Feature, Interdependent Marshmallow Test, and Space News.

Hosts: Max, Issy, Peta, and the adjective-less Gabe

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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.

Editor: Tobi