Jeremy Cordeaux is in the garage with Pete and Gary, and opens on a scandal close to home: "corridor care" in South Australia, where patients are being treated, and dying, in the hallways of the Royal Adelaide Hospital, the most expensive hospital building in the world. The same system, he notes, is now building a new Women's and Children's Hospital at $3 billion, and he asks where the media and the opposition are, and why the old hospital is being turned into apartments rather than kept to ease the load.

He relays ASIO chief Mike Burgess's blunt warning not to talk in your Chinese-made car, and extends it to phones, smart speakers and the Chinese electronics inside nearly every vehicle, citing a Four Corners demonstration of a car being remotely hacked. He rounds on Tony Burke's suggestion that homeowners take in a lodger, noting Burke owns six houses, and warns of a possible spare-room tax, skewers Jim Chalmers for mocking early super access while doing it for his own staff, and welcomes the scrapping of the veterans' medical-expenses cap as a template for reinstating the over-65s health rebate before 1.2 million people drop their cover. Plus Transport Minister Catherine King's lifetime Qantas Chairman's Lounge membership, the $7 billion home-battery scheme he likens to the pink batts scandal, the Alan Jones trial's anonymous accusers, and this day in history from Howard Florey and Jim Henson to The Muppets and the dismissal of the Whitlam government.

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Jeremy Cordeaux is in the garage with Pete and Gary, and opens on the big one: the bosses of the major AI companies warning, all within days of each other, that their own technology may be an existential threat to humanity. Jeremy believes they mean it, and asks the obvious questions, how do you put the genie back in the bottle, why build it without a kill switch, and has anyone thought to ask the AI itself? He notes we managed the nuclear threat for eighty years, but doubts the US and China will slow down when, as Trump says, whoever wins the AI race wins the world.

He is scathing about the Prime Minister in Silicon Valley worrying about artists' and content creators' copyright rather than the survival of the population, and argues that platforms and creators need each other, the audience of 10.1 million a month is an opportunity, not a grievance. He questions the pursuit of a UN Security Council seat, calling the UN impotent, irrelevant and a $100 million-a-year cocktail party that stood by at Srebrenica, and turns to immigration: with around 919,000 Australians of working age on unemployment support at a cost of $21 billion, he asks why we are told cutting migration will crash the economy. Plus a cynic's look at Earl Spencer's Diana memoir and the numbers behind it, the flop of Alan Joyce's book, and this day in history from Michael Faraday and Irving Berlin to Friends and Hobbit Day.

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Jeremy Cordeaux is in the garage with Pete and Gary, and opens on the strange and the serious. First the strange: a passenger on an American flight duct taped to his first class seat after a mid air outburst, which Jeremy turns into a run of one liners, and Harvey Norman's double page spreads for an $800 Dyson electric toothbrush, camera and all, which sets him wondering how the human mouth became such a gold mine.

Then the serious. Ambulance ramping has hit a record 5,891 hours, five years after Labor won an election promising to fix it, and the union that campaigned on the issue has gone quiet. Aged care beds, the worst housing market in forty years, headline after headline, and Jeremy asks whether the media honeymoon is finally over. He looks back forty years to 1986, Chernobyl, the Challenger disaster, and a Hawke and Keating housing experiment they eventually had to scrap, and joins the dots to today.

Plus the digital duty of care legislation heading through Parliament, why he would rather empower parents than pass another law, GDP growth propped up by subsidised electric cars, and billions in public money poured into Whyalla steel and an aluminium smelter. He wants to see the agreements before anyone signs us up, and asks why union controlled super funds are called industry funds. All that and this day in history.

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