Know Idea

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Body Horror: Brain Organoids, Nose Teeth, and Walking Statues

±3 Papaya Party Prizes

Beached by Alzheimers, 1.4±0.9 Standard Fruits a Day, Nano Cancer Vaccine... for mice, MotoRap, Coccolithophore Carbon Capture, 2025 Nobel Winners for Science, and Space News.

Hosts: Max, Issy, Peta, and Gabe (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.

Pizza Eating Lizards - Definitely Not A Cursed Episode

Hovering Is Not Rest, Agama Bin Lizards, Rammed Tubes, Droning About Turtles, MotoRap, OK Boomer, and Space News.

Hosts: Max, Issy, Peta, and Gabe (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 from kontraa and Mykola Odnoroh.

Drunk Bats

Peta's Formal Apology, Bite Resistant, AI Assisted Bioscience, 35 Degrees of Climate Science, MotoRap, Ig Nobel: 'Cacio and Pepe' and 'Drunk Bats', and Space News

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

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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 provided from Pixabay from Julius H., Yurii Semchyshyn, ArctSound, antonio jade, and Dmitry Taras

We Saw You Across the Bar and We Really Like Your Vibe

Paracetamol and Pregnancy, Sharky Threesome, Rusty Runoff, Supercharging Vinegar, Nobel Prize Winning Sauce, MotoRap, Hector’s Dolphins, The Left’s Advantage, and Space News

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

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📸 ID: At the bottom a Leopard Shark swims through rusty orange water over the Know Idea text, with Oscar staring at his phone in the mid ground. In the top lift is a pile of blue pasta being covered with blue vinegar behind forked with a left hand. On the right are two sharks (blue and pink) approaching the reader. 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 provided by Pixabay from Omar Faruque and Piano_Music

Resilient Scĭönç

Sleeping Powerhouse, Bluey Meets Grotberg, E-Bikes v E-Scooters, Upwelling Failure, MotoRap, Social Media Guidance, and Space News

Hosts: Max, Work Experience Aiden, Peta, and Gabe (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 from Pixabay by Peter Barbaix

Zenoparous Gigapixels

Zenoparous Relations, Sharper Images, Alfie and Bernie REWIND, Chlamydia Vaccine, MotoRap, Microplastic Contamination Deepdive, Phone Bans, and Space News

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

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📸 ID: Through the lense of a camera are a swarm of ants. In the midground are an unwound tape (bottom left), a teaspoon of microplastics (middle bottom), and a Koala (bottom right). In the bottom foreground 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 provided by Pixabay from Zakhar Valaha and Ruwin

MOTORAP because BIGSOUND

They didn't tell me there wasn't a podcast till after I edited it so here's the MotoRap

Hosts: Max, Issy, and Maximillian

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  • 00:00 - Intro to Know Idea
  • 02:12 - MotoRap w/ The Max’s
  • 15:05 - Support 4zzz!

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Produced and recorded by Max and Issy 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.

Number 2

Defensive Poonado, Defensive Poonado, Fat Binding Beads, Blue SpacesMotoRap, Stressed Teachers, Albino Orgasms...ORGANISMS!, and Space News

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

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RADIOTHON TAIL END PRIZES - SUBSCRIBE TO 4ZZZ

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📸 ID: In the background is a beach front with a poondao inbound. In the mid-ground a seagull is pooping on male and female albino cane toads. 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 provided by Pixabay from Sergio Prosvirini, Dvir, and Valery Romanov

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.