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AE 1432 - 5-Minute News: Why Is Australia Vaccinating 5,000 Penguins?
How do you vaccinate over 5,000 completely wild penguins — not once, but twice? In this debut Five Minute News episode, Pete breaks down Australia's effort to protect the world's largest little penguin colony from H5N1 bird flu, and teaches the expression "worst-case scenario".
AE 1431 - Aussie Childhoods Were Epic! What Do We Miss Most?
Pete and his dad have a good old-fashioned yarn about the little things that made growing up in Australia so magical — mixed lolly bags at the milk bar, footy in the street until the streetlights came on, trading Tazos, and why being bored as a kid was the best thing ever.
AE 1430 - Dead Horses & Flat Lizards - Does Dad Know It? Ep 3
Pete and Ian put ten iconic Aussie slang terms to the test — decoding rhyming slang like "dead horse" and "Captain Cook", why a snag is a "mystery bag", and why tone is everything when you're slinging a "good on you".
AE 1429 - Do Aussies Actually Use These 10 Slang Terms? - Does Dad Know It? Ep 2
Episode two of Does Dad Know It? Pete and his old man decode outrageous sayings like "the duck's guts" and "Barry Crocker", and work out why rich city folks drive "Toorak tractors" — with plenty of laughs and cultural context.
AE 1428 - 10 Australian Slang Terms & Expressions - Does Dad Know It? Ep 1
Ever wondered if true-blue Aussies actually use words like drongo or bin chicken in everyday chat? Pete sits down with his dad to put ten classic Aussie slang terms to the ultimate test — from chucking a sickie to what "yeah, nah" really means.
AE 1427 - Pete's 2c: What Aussies Do On School Holidays
What do Aussies actually do during the school holidays? Pete walks you through the traditions, the slang and the culture in a quick listening lesson. Pure listening practice: no transcript for this one.
AE 1426 - The Goss: What Was High School Like in Australia? - Part 1
Pete and Dad take a trip down memory lane to compare Aussie school days across two generations — woollen blazers in the February heat, strict headmistresses, Foursquare in the schoolyard, canteen carb-overload, and Dad's brush with Colin Hay from Men at Work.
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PlusAE 1426 - The Goss: What Was High School Like in Australia? - Part 2 [Members Only]
Part 2, members only. Pete and Ian go deeper into Aussie school culture — strict teachers, the infamous 1974 Woomera school trip, classic pranks, camp disasters, and what it was really like growing up as a teenager in 1970s Australia.
AE 1425 - Why Dating Australians Is Weird
Pete and Kel lift the hood on what makes Australian dating culture so uniquely confusing — Brazilian ficar vs Aussie coffee dates, digital ghosting and the "menu effect", chaotic early dating blunders, splitting the bill, and the number one green flag.
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