Beyond Infinity
Episodes
Not Investment Advice (from a Geek in the Business School)
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Piers is joined by mathematician and university lecturer Dr Ian Storey to discuss how lessons from business school on understanding risk can provide u...
[Political] Climate Changed
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australia's Liberal-National Coalition partners have controversially abandoned their 'Net Zero' emissions policy in favour of a more balanced, pragmat...
Footprints On The Moon
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the transition to Block 3 Starship, a new paradigm of large scale launches is expected to kick off in 2026. The pace is picking up for humanity's...
Our Inviolable Law of Conservation Of Energy
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you throw a tennis ball in space, does it go on forever? Dr Ian Storey, mathematician and Lecturer in Business Information Systems at Torrens Unive...
On The March: The Alarming Spread Of Invasive Species In Australia
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Piers and bee-keeper activist Simon Mulvany dive into the spread of invasive species around the continent. We explore the devastating impact of the Va...
Change Finally Coming To Real Estate Marketing In Australia
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US real estate giant CoStar bought Domain, a leading Australian property platform. With sites like apartments.com, homes.com and expertise in data ana...
AI: Over-hyped & Over-feared
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Piers and Andrew chew the phat and agree we're in an AI bubble which could burst at any moment. POP! We ruminate on the future of work and which jobs ...
This EVolving Car Landscape
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cars are moving away from the traditional model many of us grew up with. In spite of our nostalgia, we're seeing a flourishing menagerie of electric v...
Meltdown! The Trump/Musk Bromance Implodes
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We consider the aftermath of a once sweet political alliance, now in tatters, between the world's richest man Elon Musk and the leader of the free wor...
Trumped - The First One Hundred Days
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump's 2nd term started with a bang – tariffs, trade wars, midnight tweets; a national emergency on the southern border. Tariff policies as ...
America's Honey Integrity Act
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Beekeeper activist Simon Mulvany explains how the new Honey Integrity Act cracks down on adulterated honey and improves transparency in the market. He...
Trump's First Wild Month
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Donald steamed into his second term with laser focus on securing US borders, unleashing American energy and promoting government efficiency. He wi...
2024 Reviewed - Pre Christmas Rapping
08 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Piers and Brad look back on the big events and issues of 2024, as discussed on the Beyond Infinity Pod. From Australia's unrealistic energy policies, ...
Cybernetics & The Australian Government's Doomed Ban On Social Media
30 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Modern cybernetics informs fields like AI, robotics, biology, sociology, and philosophy, offering insights into the intricate web of relationships wit...
Unexpected Legacy
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Necessity really is the mother of invention. And some inventions make a big difference. Retired physicist Dr. Tony Heyes explains how his work solving...
Renewable Energy and Peak Load Challenges
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While renewable energy sources like wind, solar, and hydro are crucial for reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and mitigating climate change, they s...
A Vortex To Singularity
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence is leading humanity towards what many see as a new renaissance for human creativity, augmented by almost unlimited computing p...
Varroa Hits Victoria While Fire Ants Wreak Havoc In Brisbane
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Piers sits down with Simon to discuss the spread of varroa mite into Victoria and what might be done to manage the problem. Also, the effects on honey...
Why Elon? Why??
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Within minutes of former president Trump's attempted assassination on 13th July 2024, Elon Musk posted on X: “I fully endorse President Trump and ho...
Dan's Gong: Ex-Premier Handed Australia's Highest Honour
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The announcement on the King's Birthday public holiday that Dan Andrews has been awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia has left many people ...
Prioritising Public Safety Over Freedom Of Expression
18 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Australian Government has taken on social media platform X and its mercurial proprietor Elon Musk over the broadcast of a chilling attack on an As...
Mitigation Vs Eradication: Finding A Realistic Solution To Fire Ants In Australia
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Piers catches up with bee-keeper activist Simon Mulvany and hears about the Australian government's fire ant poisoning program in Queensland and NSW. ...
If Not This What? If Not Now When?
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Beyond Infinity. It's been a while. Today Piers discusses latest space news from Jupiter, the Moon and Mars. NASA admits it can't affo...
Dan's Legacy - How Well Did The Ex-Premier Handle Covid?
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A wide-ranging conversation about Dan Andrews life, personality, socialist left politics and the repercussions. Does he deserve hatred or grudging res...
Musk On Thin Ice
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a fiery appearance at the DealBook Summit in New York City, Elon Musk unloaded on Disney CEO Bob Iger. Musk insisted he would not be 'blackmailed' ...
Golfing Blues For The Ex-Premier
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Piers and John Mac chew the fat, again. Why such heated controversy around the esteemed former Victorian State Premier Dan Andrews joining a couple of...
Your Very Own Home
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Exorbitant prices, high interest rates and lack of housing stock mean many young people will never own their own home in Australia. And with 1% or les...
Wasted Opportunity - Why The Voice Referendum Failed
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Piers and veteran radio presenter John McCormack discuss Australia's recent referendum on the Voice to Parliament. Passing referenda is historically a...
This Evolving Social Media Landscape
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mature (?) social media goes subscription-based; Twitter's blue tick of approval; Reddit's unpopular IPO; TickTock gains ground - forcing change on in...
On The Politicisation Of Climate Science
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Piers and bee activist Simon Mulvany chat about the politicisation of the debate around so-called climate change, with its fear mongering and manipula...
Australia's Lost Voice
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the referendum to alter Australia's Constitution set for Saturday, 14 October 2023, people will vote yes or no on a single question about the est...
AI, Markets And The Future
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Piers reconnects with mathematician Dr Ian Storey and pro investor Guy West over a glass of wine to update listeners on artificial intelligence's effe...
After Covid, Does Melbourne Have PTSD?
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Longest cumulative lockdowns on the planet, declining mental health, record state debt, economic damage, new taxes and levies and now the loss of the ...
Spread Of Varroa Destructor Threatens Australian Bees
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Piers sits down with beekeeper activist Simon Mulvany to discuss the spread of a parasite killing honey bees in New South Wales. Simon explains how th...
This New Artificially Intelligent World
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Piers is joined by Dr. Ian Storey, lecturer in information systems at Torrens University, for a chat about the many and varied effects of artificial i...
Dawn Of The New Starship Era
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Despite its spectacular 'rapid unscheduled disassembly' four minutes into its flight, the maiden voyage of SpaceX's monster super heavy lift rocket is...
The Inevitable Intersection Of Sport And Politics
25 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Piers sits down with Brad Mckenzie to discuss whether Russia should be banned from the Paris Olympic Games in 2024. We look at the long history of pol...
The Many Uses And Abuses Of Drones, On Earth As In Heaven
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the latest episode of Beyond Infinity and our first for 2023. We discuss how Unmanned Aerial Vehicle technology is re-shaping the battlefie...
That's A Wrap - A Look Back At 2022
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A retrospective on the year's podcasts: how bee-keeping works; extreme weather hits eastern Australia; covid dwindles yet lingers as other biohazards ...
Musk Conquers Twitter
20 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The world's most successful entrepreneur now owns what he hopes will be Earth's digital town square, but he faces stiff head winds. He paid a very hig...
Lest We Forget? Victoria Seems Poised To Re-elect Dan Andrews
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Premier looks like winning another four years in office, despite what many see as his disastrous and incompetent mishandling of the pandemic. Firs...
Fallout Continues From Optus Hack
01 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A massive cyber attack threatens the private data of 9.8 million current and former Optus customers. Authorities are being forced to reissue drivers l...
Push To Allow Recycled Water In Victoria
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Better to recycle waste water and reduce ocean outfall or rely on energy-hungry desalination plants? In the lead up to the Victorian state election, a...
From Varroa Mite Or Foot And Mouth To Polio And Monkey Pox, Biohazards Still Threaten Australia
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bee keeping activist Simon Mulvany explains the problem of varroa mites for bees; how the pest entered Australia and what's being done to control it, ...
A Casual Discussion Of Quantum Mechanics
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's theorised that birds use quantum effects to navigate with help from the Earth's magnetic field. And how do massive flocks move as clouds in such ...
Can Elon Go Where No Man Has Gone Before?
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Musk's dream to make humanity a multi-planetary species. The frenetic pace of development at Starbase, his private rocket production facility, test si...
Elon's Battle For Twitter
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A look at the world's wealthiest individual and his delayed takeover of the loss-making microblogging service. His battles with Bill Gates, Mark Zucke...
New Biohazards - Monkey Pox and Winter Flu
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Latest scourge causing concern (but not alarm) around the world is monkey pox. N...
Explaining America's High Covid Death Toll
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Victorian covid stats trending higher. Comparing covid death rates around the w...
Covid Complacency
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. A rundown of rising covid numbers around Australia. Covid fatigue causing compl...
Covid Sub-variants Gaining Ground
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Ba4 and Ba5 first seen in South Africa now in Europe and America. Draconian loc...
Australia's Covid Surge
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Covid numbers rising dramatically especially in NSW, but hospitalisations remai...
Extreme Weather Grips SE Australia
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's been a rough few years for Australia with extreme weather events ranging from devastating bushfires in 2019 to the record breaking floods of the ...
Honey From The Bees
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A chat with bee keeper activist Simon Mulvany: how bee keeping works in different locations; a bumper season on the Southern Peninsula; his online bee...
Signing Off For 2021
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
That's a wrap for the year. As a plague-weary world braces for another year 'getting by' with covid, here's a brief summary of 2021 on air, through th...
America Passes 800,000 Covid Deaths, As Omicron Accelerates
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Sydney daily covid cases rising sharply, with more omicron cases popping up. Da...
Victoria's Mounting Covid Death Toll
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Omicron more infectious than Delta, but Fauci optimistic; will be dominant UK s...
The Militarisation Of Space
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On November 15, 2021 when Russia fired a hypersonic missile at its defunct COSMOS-1408 satellite in orbit just above the International Space Station, ...
OMG, Omicron!
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Comparing vaccine efficacy between Delta and Omicron. Potential benefits of new...
Mass Protests As Europe Begins Another Covid Winter Of Discontent
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Vic-NSW Covid situations compared. Fortress New Zealand closed to Aussies until...
Learning To Live With The Plague, Victoria Nears 90% Fully Vaccinated
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Cases and hospitalisations trending down as Victoria approaches 90% fully vacci...
Two Worlds - The Vaxed And The Unvaxed
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Australia passes 80% fully vaccinated nationally. Further limits on the unvacci...
Covid Update - As Victoria Opens Up, Its Government Moves To Cement Rule By Decree
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. International students heading back to Australia as borders re-open; China's Del...
Remote Collaboration - Rick Springfield Discusses His Latest Album
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Piers talks with Australian-American musician and actor Rick Springfield about his latest album ‘Jack Chrome and the Darkness Waltz'. A joint projec...
Lockdown Radio - Questioning The Media's Role In Victoria's Pandemic Response
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. More freedoms as Victoria nears 80% double vaxed; Leunig fired after 55 years at...
Lockdown Radio - Restrictions Ease As Victoria Achieves 70% Double Vaxed
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Victoria passes 70% double dosed; Mornington Peninsula vax rate well ahead of ma...
Lockdown Radio - Stark Contrast Between Victoria And NSW
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Authorities lose control of Delta as lockdown fatigue intensifies in Melbourne. ...
Lockdown Radio - At 241 Days And Counting, Melbourne's Lockdown Misery Is The Longest In The World
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Melbourne's 241+ days of cumulative lockdown surpasses any other city, costing ...
Lockdown Radio - Quakes, Riots And Chaos In The City
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Victoria struck by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake as a riotous anti-lockdown mob gat...
Andrews Government's Vague And Confusing Roadmap Out Of Lockdown
19 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Piers discusses Victoria’s new Roadmap to Deliver the National Plan with Geoff Wells, a senior consultant urologist at Melbourne's Box Hill hospital...
Lockdown Radio - Melbourne Nears 8 Months Of Lockdown As Government Mulls Relaxation Of Restrictions
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Regional status of Mornington Peninsula an increasingly hot issue; Shadow Health...
Charting A Clear And Transparent Path Out Of Lockdown
11 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Georgie Crozier, Victorian Shadow Minister for health and deputy leader of the Legislative Council, explains why Melburnians must be given hope that t...
The Race That Could Start A Nation
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Piers talks with Bruce Keebaugh, founder of catering and events company The Big Group, about the need for a clear and transparent plan to reopen the V...
Lockdown Radio - Covid Spreads As Vic Government Changes Course
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Cases popping up on highly vaccinated Mornington Peninsula as faith in Andrews g...
Remote Collaboration - Russell Morris Discusses His Latest Album
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A chat with Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist Russell Morris about his project with musician and actor Rick Springfield. Their new album 'Jac...
Lockdown Radio - Despite Tough Restrictions, Case Numbers Are Rising
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. If stage 4 restrictions don't work and even NZ can't control Delta, what will w...
Unprecedented Uncertainty (Part 2)
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Guy West, professional share market investor and a world chess master and Dr. Ian Storey, mathematician and lecturer in information systems share thei...
Unprecedented Uncertainty (Part 1)
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Piers chats with Guy West, professional share market investor and a world chess master and Dr. Ian Storey, mathematician and lecturer in information s...
The Lockdown 'Cure' Is Worse Than The Disease
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In-depth interview with Mr. Geoff Wells, medical specialist and outspoken critic of prolonged lockdowns in Melbourne, which now exceed 200 days. He sa...
Lockdown Radio - Melbourne Endures Seven Months Of Hard Lockdown
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Melbourne's lockdown extended again, with tighter restrictions and a 9pm to 5am ...
No Way To LIve - Australia's Rolling Lockdowns
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Piers chews the fat with beekeeper activist Simon Mulvany. We talk disrupted travel plans, state border closures, vaccine passports, lost freedoms, ec...
Lockdown Radio - Covid Numbers Heading The Wrong Way In Sydney And Melbourne
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. While Europe enjoys summer holidays, Australia's biggest cities are under wraps,...
The War Has Changed
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We could be entering a new and dangerous phase of the pandemic, with delta and other super contagious variants threatening populations around the worl...
Lockdown Radio - The Difference Between Delta And Earlier Variants
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Delta puts younger people at risk, as Doherty modelling shows 20-40 year olds mo...
America Bans Roundup Herbicide
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bee keeper activist Simon Mulvany explains why agribusiness multinational Bayer will stop selling Roundup for residential use in the US in 2023.
Digital Marketing Insights
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Simonetti, founder and CEO of Melbourne agency AndMine, talks about his past (very busy) 18 months. He discusses how to tap into group creativ...
Digital Fixes For Small Business
25 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Piers chats with online digital marketing expert Michael Simonetti about how demand for his company's services has exploded over the past 18 months. H...
Lockdown Radio - Victoria On Tenterhooks As Delta Returns
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. The politics of covid: Federal Opposition on the attack over Australia's squande...
Is Australia Becoming A Hermit Nation?
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is Australia's response to the pandemic becoming, as Labour politician Bill Shorten put it, a "sh*t show"? Even though the country mass produces its o...
Nailing Its Mars Landing, China Signals 'Game On' For Space Race 2.0
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
China has become only the second country after America to successfully land on Mars, at Utopia Planitia. The ambitious Tianwen-1 mission includes an o...
Lockdown Radio - Mixed Messaging Adds To Vaccine Hesitancy
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Feds finally get urgent about vaccine rollout, but their messaging is mixed and ...
Lockdown Radio - Sydney Cluster Growing And NZ Not Immune
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. British medical journal 'The Lancet' reports up to a third of people infected wi...
Intuitive Improvisation Is The Secret Of Genius
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A look at how great NASA is at solving problems with its spacecraft over vast distances. From saving the Apollo 13 astronauts to deliberately ripping ...
Lockdown Radio - Melbourne's 4th Shutdown Ends
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As Melbourne's 4th economically devastating lockdown draws to a close, we discuss the political fallout and changing attitudes to compliance with gove...
Lockdown Radio - Origins Of Wuhan Virus, The Alpha Strain
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. As Melbourne emerges from 2 weeks of stage 4 lockdown, attention returns to the ...
Lockdown Radio - Indian 'Black Fungus' And 4th Lockdown Extended In Victoria
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Live-to-air interviews: Nasty mucormycosis fungal infections wreak havoc in India; Victoria's 4th hard lockdown extended; limits of quarantine hotels;...
Media Shake Up As HD Music Streaming Comes Of Age
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A chat with veteran broadcaster Brendon Telfer of RPPfm about the introduction of CD quality music streaming. It's welcome news for audiophiles, but w...
Statewide Lockdown Threatens Victoria's Fragile Recovery
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We talk with Geoff Wells, medical specialist and founder of the Covid Doctors' Network, about the latest outbreak of the Indian covid variant and the ...
Everything From Bees Tasting Covid To Monkeys Playing Pong Via Neuralink!
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A wide-ranging chat on live-to-air radio with bee activist Simon Mulvany. We cover fast and cheap covid testing using bees, honey (and money) on tap f...
The Tree In The Swamp
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Piers hears from Dr.Tony Heyes, retired physicist and inventor, about what he calls the Adams Event, a time 42,000 years ago when the Earth's magnetic...