iTunes launches podcasts and Ned Kelly becomes Aussie merch royalty

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Rewind to 26 June 2005 to 2 July 2005
🎧 Podcasting goes mainstream. iTunes officially jumps on the podcast bandwagon and suddenly your weird uncle with a headset mic thinks he’s the next Ira Glass. Everyone’s got a podcast now — including us — but we promise zero toilet wine reviews.
⚖️ Grokster gets busted. The Supreme Court serves up a harsh reminder that building your business on pirated copies of Gladiator isn’t exactly legal. Goodbye free Shrek downloads, hello suspicious .exe files and 12-hour waits for "Finding Nemo" that definitely weren’t Nemo.

🧢 Ned Kelly gets heritage listed. Glenrowan, site of Ned Kelly’s final standoff, gets heritage status and an unofficial side hustle in car decals, mailbox toppers and calf tattoos that say “such is life.” Iconic outlaw, small-town merch king.

🎤 Live 8 turns up the volume. Bono, Pink Floyd and every early-2000s music icon throw the world’s biggest gig to ‘make poverty history.’ It’s Live Aid, but with broadband, more leather pants and slightly fewer perms.
🎥 Bobby Brown overshares. Being Bobby Brown premieres and we get an unfiltered, chaotic and occasionally TMI look into the life of Bobby and Whitney. It’s equal parts hilarious, uncomfortable and impossible to stop watching.

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Chapters

1. intro (00:00:00)

2. show opener (00:00:21)

3. news (00:09:04)

4. technology and innovation (00:30:28)

5. music (00:41:54)

6. open up the boombox (00:57:21)

7. movies and tv (01:00:20)

8. books we didn't read (01:08:23)

9. hatches, matches and dispatches (01:17:35)

10. show closer (01:22:54)