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Shake your boxes, pour your macadamia milk and get excited because SYN's breakfast flagship is on the airwaves all through 2025. Meet Harper Pestinger, Emma Giles, Takee Alif, Sam Kelly and esteemed brekky guests around the table for the most important show of the day. Out of the box Fridays from 7:30am on SYN 90.7FM. Stay in the loop @GetCerealSYN

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June 13, 2025 β€’ 10 mins

The weekend just gone, Harper spent the rainy couple of days at the beach but could only think of one thing: what are all these shells made out of?

Lynton Stephens is from the Malacological Society of Australasia and called in to solve our mollusc mysteries.


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Peter Khalil is the federal Labor MP for Wills, the electorate encompassing parts of Melbourne's middle-to-inner north.

He selected three songs that've shaped him:

  • 'Boshret Kheir' by Hussain al Jassmi
  • 'All Along the Watchtower' by Jimi Hendrix
  • 'Russians' by Sting

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A cold and spooky morning was made cheerful through a chat with Kylie Sturgess. She’s an expert in superstitions and pseudoscience and we chatted to Sturgess on the 13th about the history and meaning behind the most ominous date of the year.


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It's Friday the 13th and it's cold. Bad vibes, bad vibes, bad vibes.

Sam escaped the cold and jumped on a plane to sunny serenity - he called us live from the airport to celebrate a monumental achievement.

Plus, superstition expert Kylie Sturgess tells us the history of this unlucky day, Lea is back and exploring Queen Victoria Market for her Melbourne Memento, shell expert Lynton Stephens cracks some mollusc mysteries and Scarlett...

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June 9, 2025 β€’ 11 mins

How can you make a PowerPoint presentation funny?

Snug jumper-wearer Ethan Cavanagh is one of comedy's most acclaimed rising prospects and is performing at Quarterhouse on June 12th: https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/ba6aa34f-fc6a-4fdb-929f-843402d223f9


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How long does it take to go through 900 movie applications? Which comes first: category or film? And how have non-feature flicks changed over the years? 

We caught up with the mastermind behind Australia's longest running short film festival. 

See more about the festival: https://www.stkildafilmfestival.com.au/


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It's the first the show of the winter and, for Emma, Sam and federal Labor MP Peter Khalil, Harper's gathered together five questions on hibernation, snow in Melbourne, a "crazy Swedish man" and more beyond, including a high-stakes singing contest.


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Comedian Ethan Cavanagh, St Kilda Film Festival director Richard Sowada and Labor MP for Wills Peter Khalil join the show for a group singing, cereal selecting, PowerPoint presenting feast!


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Emma chats with State Library exhibition curator Georgia Goud about the new exhibit Make Believe: Encounters with Misinformation. Together they navigate the reality, art and dissemination of misinformation we encounter. 


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Antonia the ant accidentally found its way in Harper's packed-up lunchbox this week, hundreds of metres from all its friends and family. Will it be lost to its friends and family forever? 

Charles Darwin University's Professor Alan Andersen is an ant community expert, has six species named after him and joined us to give us all the ant-swers to the questions that'd been bugging us.


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May 30, 2025 β€’ 17 mins

Harper puts Takee, Emma and Sam to the test in a battle of music and monkey knowledge.

Can they name the food-related track from only one instrument? And who will slip on the banana peel and equate apes with monkeys?


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One of the most enduring hits from what was then history's best-selling album, How Deep Is Your Love combines Bee Gees' iconic lush harmonies with slow-dance instrumentation and an eternal question of intimacy.

Sena Fukushima is in the Cereal Box to find out how Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb defied their previous style to pull together a romance playlist staple.


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How do ants find their way home? Why should you check out the State Library's new exhibition on misinformation? And which "film buff" presenter has inexplicably never seen Shrek?


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Alice Zaslavsky is a beloved writer, broadcaster and food literacy advocate, celebrated for making vegetables vibrant and accessible.

Having moved here from Georgia at 5 years old, she's gone on to inspire people across Australia through a diverse media career full of warmth and wit.

  • 'You Can Win If You Want' by Modern Talking
  • 'Nine Million Bicycles' by Katie ...
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May 23, 2025 β€’ 16 mins

Sam Kelly catches up with Conor Lynch, fresh off aGolden Gibbo nomination at the Comedy Festival for his show 'Chimp Boy'.


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Sam Kelly, Emma Giles and Takee Alif are back in the studio. Join us as we dive into the 100 men vs a gorilla phenomenon, what’s the best sauce and more foodie chats.

Plus Harper Pestinger talks with Alice Zaslavsky about the songs that have defined her life on Keeping Tracks.

But first Sam Kelly kicks off the show chatting to Conor Lynch about his fresh new comedy show all about monkeys.


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