Earwash

Episode 68 - The Insect Version of Snoop Dogg

Earwash's coverage of the 2024 Insect Games concludes today with an interview with the Australian Insect Games team's unofficial mascot and bringer of good vibes, the Earwig. Acting on legal advice, Earwash wishes to make it clear that this podcast is NOT in any way seeking to suggest, imply or otherwise convey that the Earwig has been involved in an elaborate plot to kill insect athletes, take their medals and melt those medals down for use in his sinister plots, and anyone who says that is the case is lying and is likely to wake up with an angry Earwig using its pincers on a delicate part of their anatomy. Okay?

Episode 67 - The Anteater Incident

In today's episode Douglas and French omni-critic Horace Perrault discuss the memorable moments of the 2024 Insect Games, including a centipede called Legless Carl Thresher, ironic snail deaths and the Anteater Incident

Episode 66 - Mantis Volleyball

Mantis madness at Mortein Staduium where Morocco's Munira and Muntaz Mantis make moves for gold against Melbourne's own Mandy and Mary Mantis, in a memorable match involving microcephalic male Maltese mantises, Mecca and mayhem

Episode 65 - Flea Pole Vault

Today's Insect Games episode brings you the thrilling final of the flea pole vault. Who will snap under the pressure? Listen and find out.

Episode 64 - The Snail Marathon

BREAKING: Drama at snail marathon as surprise track invader shakes up the race. For more details, listen to this episode of Earwash!

Episode 63 - Bees?

In an un-bee-lievable sixty-third episode, we meet the Australian male bee synchronised flying team. Despite being a largely visual experience, we're putting it out as audio. You shall have to imagine for yourselves the spectacle that unfolds.

Episode 62 - A Soup That Can Get People Pregnant

In a tight little capsule of an episode, Douglas discloses the strange oddments contained in one of his notebooks. That's it, that's the entire thing, and yet it is so much more than this blurb would suggest. Listen and hear it for yourself

Episode 61 - The Anti-Woke Sandwich

This week, we hear from Douglas's American neighbour Jennifer. Why is she boycotting a major hardware chain? What is the most anti-woke meat? Does kosher salt really make things kosher? Some of these questions will be answered in this week's earwashing.

Episode 60 -The Best Place to Have an Existential Crisis in Ballarat

Douglas has spent the last month in Ballarat, and it's starting to get to him. Fortunately he has omnicritic Horace Perrault to assist him in assessing exactly what is the biggest problem with where he is staying. Is it the light that will not turn off? Is it the grime in the bathroom? Or is it the unsettling thing Douglas found in the carpet? Listen, and find out for yourselves about the apartment that is the best place to have an existential crisis in Ballarat.

Episode 59 - The Wisdom of the Stars

This week Douglas has consulted the stars to foretell your future. At least, he thinks they were the stars. He lives in a very light polluted area so what he may have been consulting may have been Starlink satellites, or a plane going overhead. Whatever it actually was that was consulted, it bestows its secrets of the future upon you. Listen, and hear what the future holds for you...
Music: Ethereal by Punch Deck