Do Go On
A fact based comedy podcast. Each week Melbourne comedians Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins and Dave Warneke take it in turns to research a topic and report back to the class. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
Stephen King is one of the best selling authors in history and over 100 of his stories have been adapted for the screen. It, Carrie, Cujo, The Green Mile, Pet Sematary, The Shawshank Redemption, Salem's Lot, Stand By Me, Misery, The Mist, The Shining... King's work is intrinsic to popular culture. On this episode we look at the man dubbed "The King of Horror" and try to find out what makes him tick.
This is a comedy/history podc...
On the 6th of September, 2006, 51-year-old Susan Kuhnhausen returned to her Portland home to find an intruder wielding a hammer, this is her remarkable story.
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 04:45 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
Content warning:
Violence, hammer related assault (main details at 00:15:19)
Previous murder details at 00:26:44
This week we hear the incredible story of some of the earliest paramedics, and the battle they faced in order to just do their jobs.
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 06:07 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
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After Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbour, Japanese Pilot Shigenori Nishikaichi needed a place to conduct an emergency landing. He had been told that the nearby Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau was uninhabited, but that intel was wrong. People did live there, and what's more - the island known as "The Forbidden Isle" has a very interesting history...
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 07:20 (though a...
In this episode we hear about some of the silliest criminals of recent times, including the man known as the 'piddler on the roof'! Recorded live at the Fringe Bar in Wellington.
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 6:48 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
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This week we hear the wild story of the Batavia - it's a story of a shipwreck, murder, mutiny and madness.
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 10:50 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
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In the mid 1960s, Alexis Mardas met John Lennon from The Beatles, and the self-professed inventor made an immediate impression. With outlandish ideas like an artificial Sun, paint that could change colour or a force field that surrounded the Beatles' homes for security, he soon found himself head of Apple Electronics. But just how many of these whacky ideas came to fruition? Recorded live at Oasis Comedy Club in Perth.
This is a...
On the 7th of April 1994, at just after 3pm, FedEx Flight 705 departed Memphis, Tennessee for a flight to San Jose, California. What followed was one of the most harrowing and heroic journeys of the 20th century.
CW: discussion of suicide + plane related turmoil + hammer-based violence
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 10:05 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
This week, we hear the story of a Kentucky family, who were just trying to have a nice family dinner one night in 1955, when they suddenly found themselves under attack by ALIENS! ... Or did they?
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 09:39 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
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At the Sydney 2000 Paralympics, Intellectually Disabled Basketball was included for the first time. Spain easily won the gold medal, but not all was what it seemed... This is the story of a scandal so big it changed the Paralympics forever.
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 05:43 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
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In 1995 eight sheep were found dead in Puerto Rico... each completely drained of blood and with strange puncture wounds in their chests. This is the tale of the mysterious beast known as El Chupacabra!
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 12:49 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
Recorded live in Sydney!
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In 2014, a group of Tumblr users decided to put on a Tumblr convention. Except they had no idea how to organise a convention ...
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 05:28 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
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Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
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This is the frankly unbelievable story of how far eBay employees went in 2019 to deal with both a small company and a Twitter user being critical of their CEO and company. Harassment, intimidation, doxing, cockroaches and a dead pig... welcome to the eBay stalking scandal, featuring special guest Kirsty Webeck!
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 10:14 (though as always, we go off on tangents thr...
Every year you will hear stories about how "they" want to cancel Christmas - so how much truth is there to it? Are ‘they’ really trying to cancel Christmas?? We go through a few examples over the years and try to get to the bottom of it, including the infamous Winterval Festival in Birmingham!
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 00:04:31 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the rep...
In December 1985, around 160 people won tickets to a Washington Commanders game, including a free pre-game brunch and a bunch of extra prizes! The catch? None of those "winners" made it to the football game that day ...
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 07:39 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
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Not only is Canberra the capital of Australia, according to National Geographic it is one of the most haunted cities IN THE WORLD! This week Dave investigates three of Canberra's most haunted places (Hotel Kurrajong, Blundells Cottage and The National Film and Sound Archive). Recorded on Halloween 2025, live at Smiths Alternative in Canberra.
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 04:53 (though as a...
Area 51 is a highly classified United States Military Facility in the Nevada Desert - there are many theories about what goes on: aliens? UFOs? Portals to other dimensions? The truth is in there! From Bob Lazar to Storming Area 51, this episode delves into it all! This is the number one most voted for topic of Block 2025!
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 7:57 (though as always, we go off ...
You may have heard of Stanley Milgram's controversial 1960s social psychology experiments that measured the willingness of participants to obey an authority figure. This week Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall joins us to challenge the traditional narrative of these experiments and blows the whole thing wide open! Are people inherently evil? Or is this even more controversial that we were led to believe? This is the second most voted for t...
It's our 3rd most voted for topic for Block 2025! We go back to 1666, for the Great Fire of London. And in this case, 'great' means massive, not awesome.
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 08: 25 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
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Between 1999 and 2015, over 900 British subpostmasters were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting. The thing is, they were all innocent and were the victims of faulty accounting software. This is an astonishing story of a year's long cover up and extreme miscarriage of justice, and the fourth most voted topic of Block 2025!
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 08:11 (though as always, we ...
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