A new species of great ape has been discovered! Amberly tells Matt the amazing story of how reading some old Dutch papers lead to the discovery of a new species of Orangutan. Also, Amberly has a robot fact! It's all about the underdog helping clean up nuclear waste. Matt tells Amberly an animal fact about how cocktaoos are destroying the NBN. Finally, somone has built an AI to mess with scammers and it is brilliant.

A new species of great ape has been discovered! Amberly tells Matt the amazing story of how reading some old Dutch papers lead to the discovery of a new species of Orangutan. Also, Amberly has a robot fact! It's all about the underdog helping clean up nuclear waste. Matt tells Amberly an animal fact about how cocktaoos are destroying the NBN. Finally, somone has built an AI to mess with scammers and it is brilliant.

Each week Matt Saraceni and Amberly Cull tell each other Something Amazing that they've discovered. It could be a fact, could be a story, could be a recipe for flan. Anything! With the one rule: it must be - Something Amazing! 

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Each week Matt Saraceni and Amberly Cull bring each other Something Amazing.

Something Amazing

Each week Matt Saraceni and Amberly Cull tell each other Something Amazing that they've discovered. It could be a fact, could be a story, could be a recipe for flan. Anything! With the one rule: it must be - Something Amazing!

Episode 23: Nuclear robots, spam revenge and a new great ape!

A family in Australia has recreated an entire 15-hour flight in their living room! Also the inventor of N-95 masks (used by front-line medical workers) has come out of retirement to help. Also, the story of Violet Jessup and how she survived three separate shipwrecks! Plus we read your mail from hellosomethingamazing@gmail.com

A family in Australia has recreated an entire 15-hour flight in their living room! Also the inventor of N-95 masks (used by front-line medical workers) has come out of retirement to help. Also, the story of Violet Jessup and how she survived three separate shipwrecks! Plus we read your mail from hellosomethingamazing@gmail.com

Family fun, Violet Jessup and Mailbags

Another episode from our socially distant bunkers - Matt tells Amberly about the Irish Prime Minister's hobby and how Lin-Manuel Miranda is making dreams come true in John Krasinski's Some Good News internet show. Amberly tells Matt about some goats taking over a town and the legacy of an amazing astronaut: Ronald McNair 👨‍🚀 ALSO! Bucket sandwiches.

Another episode from our socially distant bunkers - Matt tells Amberly about the Irish Prime Minister's hobby and how Lin-Manuel Miranda is making dreams come true in John Krasinski's Some Good News internet show. Amberly tells Matt about some goats taking over a town and the legacy of an amazing astronaut: Ronald McNair 👨&zwj;🚀 ALSO! Bucket sandwiches.

Social Distancing: Lin-Manuel Miranda's Dream Factory, Goats, Ronald McNair

Recorded from social isolation, using a direct link from Matt's home office to Amberly's blanket fort - we're back doing what we always do: telling each other "Something Amazing" from quarantine. In this episode: the competition from 1920's New York that has everyone laughing except "Sober Sue", viking's weapons, Graham Merfield - who ran a marathon by doing laps of his garden and the astrophysicist Dr Daniel Reardon who got magnets stuck up his nose while inventing a device to protect against Corona Virus.

Recorded from social isolation, using a direct link from Matt's home office to Amberly's blanket fort - we're back doing what we always do: telling each other "Something Amazing" from quarantine. In this episode: the competition from 1920's New York that has everyone laughing except "Sober Sue", viking's weapons, Graham Merfield - who ran a marathon by doing laps of his garden and the astrophysicist Dr Daniel Reardon who got magnets stuck up his nose while inventing a device to protect against Corona Virus.

Episode 23: Nuclear robots, spam revenge and a new great ape!

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