183 - The History of Vegemite (with Nick Mason)
Do Go On
Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
"As Australian as Vegemite on toast" is something that someone probably said at some point. The salty black spread is one of Australia's most iconic food stuffs, but why? And how? Well, listen to this episode to find out!
Joined by The Weekly Planet's Nick Mason, this episode was recorded live at the European Bier Cafe for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
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Sources/Further Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegemite
https://vegemite.com.au/heritage/vegemite-timeline/
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/walker-fred-8953
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2017-01-19/bega-buys-vegemite-mondelez/8193268
https://twistedhistory.net.au/2016/07/06/13-funky-facts-about-vegemite/
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| 0:00.0 | Before we start the show, I just want to let you know that we've got our huge 400th episode |
| 0:05.0 | coming up soon. It's a live stream. It's very exciting. The tickets are sold out for |
| 0:08.6 | the live audience, but you can watch it on the stream. Is that right, Jess? |
| 0:12.0 | That is correct. You can watch it on a live stream because we know how technology works. |
| 0:17.6 | A lot of confidence late there. |
| 0:19.6 | And it's not just our 400th episode, but you also get to live stream our after party. |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah, well, Jess Perkins will be DJ Bob on the decks. There'll be some cakes and special |
| 0:28.8 | guests or sorts of stuff. And you can get tickets for our show on Saturday, June 17th at |
| 0:33.8 | dogoonpod.com. And you can watch live all later. |
| 0:37.8 | Yeah. And is this a kind of thing you can stream from anywhere in the world? |
| 0:41.8 | Anywhere in the world, even Antarctica. |
| 0:43.8 | Okay. Well, it's a lot of fun. |
| 0:45.8 | Yeah. Yeah. Pretty good. |
| 0:48.8 | This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. |
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| 0:58.8 | Hello and welcome to another intro to another episode of do go on. My name is Dave Warnicki. |
| 1:13.8 | And I'm just here at the start of the show to quickly tell you that this week's episode |
| 1:17.8 | of do go on was recorded live at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with our good friend |
| 1:23.8 | and fourth beat all Nick Mason. Now this was the fourth and final Melbourne International Comedy Festival show that we did. |
| 1:30.8 | And we just want to make a huge thank you to everyone who came to all of those shows. |
| 1:35.8 | They were all packed and we had such a good time our best year yet in my opinion. |
| 1:40.8 | And to all the people that came, people came from overseas from interstate, locals, people that had season |
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