Bonus: How living in Australia Became Impossible
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Hey folks, get ready for a new season of blowback coming Monday, September 22nd. |
| 0:10.0 | This time around, we're covering the Cold War Showdown in Africa. |
| 0:14.5 | When apartheid South Africa invades the newly independent nation of Angola, |
| 0:19.2 | revolutionary Cuba sends its own army to defend its African ally, while the United States |
| 0:24.9 | backs a warlord whose only goal is power. |
| 0:28.2 | Subscribe now at blowback.com. Show and get the entire season when it drops. |
| 0:32.6 | Add free. Blowback.com. |
| 0:35.5 | My friends, Australia isn't deep didgeridoo, which do in this case is a, is a pun for |
| 0:41.0 | crap because it's in trouble and then simultaneously that didgeridoo is a musical instrument. |
| 0:46.5 | Don't dislike this video within the first five seconds, please. |
| 0:49.1 | Yes, the Commonwealth currently suffers from one of the worst housing shortages the modern |
| 0:52.4 | world has ever seen. |
| 0:53.9 | This problem includes rates of homeownership that have taken a nose dive, rental vacancies |
| 0:58.1 | that are rarer than snow in the outback, housing costs that seem almost inhumane, and a rising |
| 1:03.0 | homelessness rate that feels more, well, LA than Adelaide. |
| 1:07.4 | Early at this point, the land down under seems more like someone who just got told, |
| 1:15.8 | that's not a knife, this is a knife, and then the knife is pointed right at them. Like most problems in history, though, this one can't be blamed on one simple reason. Instead, it's |
| 1:20.5 | wrapped in layers of political gridlock, laws that set the stage for the situation to occur in |
| 1:25.0 | the first place, and even some good old-fashioned racial |
| 1:28.3 | tension. Yeah, this isn't going to get spicy. But, of course, as always, before it is that we |
| 1:33.1 | cross the hemispheres to hear about homeless fears, we need to surf backwards down the |
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