Mates in Space

In this international crossover of unprecedented geopolitical import, Jack and Justin join Canadian Eurovision podcast ESC101 to talk about the (im)practicalities of Eurovision on the Moon, what the …

Presenting: a special guest episode of Best Left Forgotten!

P. Zinner co-founders Justin McArthur and Ciarán Moffatt join Nathan Quadrio, Miriam Fietz and Jess Wolfendale for this deliberately unoffic…

New to the P. Zinner network – Please Attend Carefully! 

Please Attend Carefully is a Doctor Who podcast from Ciarán Moffatt and Amber Patrick, examining the lives and times of the renegade Time Lord…

HOLDING FERMI: In the second part of this bumper season finale, Jack and Justin talk about why us Earthlings might be the luckiest people in the universe. Tangents include: Kang & Kodos, the Voyager …

WHERE IS EVERYBODY: The Fermi paradox asks a simple question with a difficult answer – if the universe is so big, where are all the aliens? In the first part of this bumper season finale, Jack and Ju…

NOW THIS IS PODCASTING: In 1983, US president Ronald Reagan was looking for a new way to prevent nuclear war. His answer? Space lasers! Tangents include: Barbenheimer, clip art, the New York Times Cr…

Our wise and powerful corporate overlords made us cut this bit from our S1 episode 'The Last Year of Confusion' – but were they right to? Probably. We'll be back next week with another full episode!

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LLAMA LLAMA SCHMUCK: Last month, two alleged 'alien corpses' were presented before the Congress of Mexico. According to UFOlogist Jaime Maussan, they're the mummies of ~1,000 year old extra-terrestri…

I'M YOUR VENUS: In 1768, Lieutenant James Cook set sail to observe a twice-in-a-lifetime astronomical event – the transit of Venus. Secretly, he had also been ordered to look for the "great Southern …

MIR MORTALS: What would a moon colony look like, and would it be able to compete in Eurovision? How does space affect  the human body? And just how likely is it that Jack and Justin will go to space,…

GALILEO FIGARO: Justin and Jack are taking your questions, again! This time, they answer the juicy question – what could we find in the moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune? Tangents include:…

Justin pops in briefly to talk about the Mates in Space theme song. We'll be back next week with a full episode!

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY: Mates in Space is made on Kaurna Country, never ceded. We p…

CHANDRA YARNS: India has become the 4th country to land on the moon! But why? In this pioneering episode of Mates in Space: After Dark, Jack and Justin discuss the success of ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 roc…

YOU ASKED FOR IT: Justin and Jack are taking your questions! What's on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Adelaide? What does the International Space Station smell like? And why are aliens cal…

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at Mates HQ? 

In this bonus episode, Justin joins fellow Adelaide-based science communicator Dr Juan Miguel Balbin of SWIPE SciComm for an exclusi…

IT'S GRUSCH HOUR: Jack and Justin are back to discuss the revelation that the US government has been investigating UAPs, as discussed in a 2-hour Congressional hearing with 3 ex-military witnesses (R…

ENGINE BLEED: The Artemis I launch scheduled for 29th August 2022 has been postponed – but why? Justin and Jack explain exactly what happened to the scheduled launch of Artemis I, before re-introduci…

What do the Premier's abs have to do with our future in space? In this star-studded season finale, Jack and Justin are joined by South Australia's Deputy Premier (and Minister for Defence and Space I…

It's a mate-on-mate space race — but which of your hosts has more star power? In this penultimate episode of Season 1, Jack and Justin put their space knowledge to the test as they compete for seats …

Why does Australia have a space agency? In today's episode, Jack and Justin talk about three astronauts, two Space Agencies, and one big Dish.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY: Mates in Space is made on Ka…