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If You're Listening

Matt's producers present the weirdest tales from the basement

5/4/202622 min

From engineers with god complexes to elite athletes prone to being struck by lightning, Matt’s producers Pat and Adair bring the strangest stories that haven’t made it into a story of If You’re Listening.

You can listen to Matt Bevan's episode of Conversations here

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Clips

The Engineer Who Wasn’t
A Movement Killed Onstage
Bad Vibes Motorcade
‘Struck By Lightning’ Excuse
Musk Deer Medicine Defense
Technocracy’s Family Tree Twist
Engineers Should Rule Everything

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 00:00

    [upbeat music] ABC Listen, podcasts, radio, news, music, and more.

  2. Alan Kohler· Soundbite0:05

    What's on the mind of the country's biggest, most influential, and most innovative business leaders, founders, and creators?

  3. Matt Bevan· Host0:14

    You're in a very pessimistic place, uh, Alan.

  4. Alan Kohler· Soundbite0:17

    You get to find out every Friday with me, Alan Kohler, as I sit down with the people influencing the markets, the economy, and the ideas shaping our world.

  5. Matt Bevan· Host0:25

    I engage, you know, regularly, enthusiastically with the tech sector and some of these big players in AI.

  6. Alan Kohler· Soundbite0:31

    Find That's Business with Alan Kohler on the ABC Business Daily Feed on ABC Listen, or wherever you get your podcasts.

  7. Matt Bevan· Host0:38

    This podcast was produced on the lands of the Awabakal and Gadigal people. [upbeat music] G'day, Matt Bevan here. This is If You're Listening. Today, the second part of the Newcastle Writers Festival live show that we did last month. In case you missed the first part, this was all about me and my producers, Pat Sunderland and Adare Sheppard, sharing the stories we couldn't find time for in the show's regular schedule. I shared my story last week, and this time it's Pat and Adare's turn. They came up with some very strange stories that I think you'll love.

  8. Pat Sunderland1:17

    So I wanna give you guys a bit of context to start this story. Uh, this is a story that came at the start of the year when the Black Swans series was airing,

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