Carrots And Stick

Carrots And Stick is episode 105 of the podcast, Boonta Vista. This episode was released on 02-Jul-2019.

Description

Andrew, Lucy & Theo are looking at the government's latest measures to “encourage” people to stop collecting welfare, bad opinion columns capped off by the Return Of The King, our new Planely Speaking segment and your letters.

Intro Scenario

Summary	Written by
We are on a farm, picking fruit.	Andrew

Hosts

Guests

No guests this episode.

Segments

Timestamp	Segment	Notes
0:02:55	Unnamed Segment	The government's back in action “encouraging” people, trailing policies like drug testing welfare recipients, forcing people to pick fruit or lose payments, etc.
0:22:50	Unnamed Segment	Searching for bad opinion writing and finding Kerry Parnell in the Telegraph writing about people not paying for their holidays, and not liking horror movies.
0:33:55	Unnamed Segment	Andrew Bolt is mad about the TV show Chernobyl.
0:47:05	Planely Speaking	First time we hear the jingle, but it wasn't played in live. Reports into cost-cutting being the direct cause of Boeing's well-documented safety issues, talk about cost-cutting in air travel generally.
0:54:48	Mailbag	What's the best apple variety? What was Theo's karaoke night like? Should my mate narc on the kids messing about on his bus to their school? How was getting married in Vegas?

Episode Notes

There's another reference to Bill Leak's balcony faill at the end of this episode.

Other Information
Outro Music
Movies Referenced	Psycho (1960), Final Destination (2000), The Bye Bye Man (2017), Wolf Creek 2 (2013), Taken (2008)
Fad Diets	No
Crime Passes	No
Hundredth Episode Gong	N/A

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