549 - The Great 'Oil Sniffer' Scandal
Do Go On
Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
The 1970s was rocked by two oil crises, and countries were desperate to find alternative sources of fuel. So when two eccentric inventors stepped forward with a machine that could supposedly detect untapped oil from the air, surely it wasn't too good to be true? And surely, the French government would do their due diligence before investing BILLIONS of dollars in the idea?
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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/autoworkers-and-sniffing-planes/
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/02/world/a-fiasco-in-france-planes-that-can-sniff-out-oil.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78lj4976lvo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis#Effects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_oil_crisis
“L’affaire des avions renifleurs,” or “The Great Oil Sniffer Hoax.”
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| 0:00.0 | Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. |
| 0:03.0 | And we should also say this is 2026. |
| 0:04.9 | Jess, what year is it? |
| 0:06.1 | 2026. |
| 0:07.3 | Thank God you're here. |
| 0:08.5 | Canada, we are visiting you in September this year. |
| 0:11.2 | If you somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto for shows. |
| 0:16.9 | That's going to be so much fun. |
| 0:18.3 | Lastly, very exciting news. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm going to do a live 200th episode special of Who Knewit with Matt Stewart in Melbourne at the basement comedy club on June the 27th in the afternoon, 4pm. |
| 0:29.0 | Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. |
| 0:32.0 | And I'm here too. |
| 0:33.5 | Music Hello. |
| 0:51.7 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. |
| 0:54.9 | My name is Dev Warnocky and as always I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Whoa. Oh, it is so good to be here. Inside of people's ears? Yes. |
| 1:03.4 | Is that right? I think, so we've been doing this 10 years and people say to me, old people say, |
| 1:09.5 | what is a podcast? Yeah. And I think finally. I say that in most weeks. Yes. And I say to me, old people say, what is a podcast? Yep. And I think finally. I say that most weeks. Yes. And I say, oh, little buddy. But I think finally I figured it out. And it's that we are inside people's ears. Yes. And, you know, we're just tickling around in there talking about stuff. Yep. Tickling and talking. Time of recording. We just finished comedy festival. We're all feeling really good. Yep. Ticklin and talking. |
| 1:29.3 | Time of recording, we just finished comedy festival. |
| 1:31.0 | We're all feeling really good. |
| 1:31.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.1 | Pumped up. |
| 1:33.7 | I actually am feeling pretty good. |
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