Tom O’Mahony (Beneath the Skin, Lions Led by Donkeys) and the lads grab their rosary blades and make for the miraculous city of Cvstodia as they cover The Game Kitchen’s gothic 2023 Metroidvania: Blasphemous II. Topics include the game’s Sevillian origins, the literal Piss-Christ, and the importance of gamifying Catholicism as a merciless, guilt-ridden bloodbath. Tom O’Mahony: Twitter Beneath the Skin: A podcast chronicling the interconnected history of the world through the complicated history of tattooing. Hosted by Art History professor, museum curator, and tattoo historian Dr. Matt Lodder, and podcast producer, and tattoo collector Thomas O’Mahony. The show is trying to tell the history of tattooing as it interweaves with politics, society, and the weirdest corners of the world. So why don’t you join us, and take a journey beneath the skin. Spotify // Apple Podcasts // Patreon // Twitter // Instagram Lions Led By Donkeys: A military history podcast for laughing at the worst military failures, inept commanders, and crazy stories from throughout the history of human conflict. Spotify // Apple Podcasts // Patreon // Twitter // Instagram Glue Factory Podcast: A new comedy podcast from the creators of Trashfuture, BudPod and more. Milo Edwards, Olga Koch, Pierre Novellie and Riley get together with guests and pour out the contents of their addled minds. Spotify // Apple Podcasts // Patreon // Twitter // Instagram // Youtube Media Referenced in this Episode: Blasphemous 2. The Game Kitchen/Team17, 2023. Blasphemous. The Game Kitchen/Team17, 2019. “Blasphemous: 16th-17th Century Andalucía Nightmare Fuel for the Soul—now in Spanish!” by Tiffany Funk. VGA Gallery. September, 2020. “Blasphemous: How Spanish Art & History Inspired The World of Cvstodia.” The Lore Hunter. October 21st, 2019. “Blasphemous II, EP02: Touring Cvstodia | Dev Diaries” The Game Kitchen. 2023 “Blasphemous II, EP03: “The Art and the Miracle” | Dev Diaries” The Game Kitchen. 2023. Landing Blasphemous: The Making of Blasphemous 1 (Full Documentary). Dir. Rodri Vazcano. The Game Kitchen. 2021. “La historia de Blasphemous 1 y 2 explicada – Análisis a fondo del ‘lore’” by Julián Ramírez. GamerFocus. October 21st, 2023. “Feeling History in Blasphemous: Monstrosity and Spectacle through Time” by Jack Orchard. Play the Past. February 22nd, 2022. “Spain’s dwindling knife sharpeners” by Tom Burridge. BBC News, Madrid. January 8th, 2014. TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com

This special bonus episode was recorded live at Fishburners as part of the Spark Festival in October 2022, to celebrate the launch of The History of the Australian Startup Ecosystem documentary. The event included a panel of eight guests, each representing a different corner of the startup ecosystem: - Malcolm Turnbull, former Prime Minister - Michelle Deaker, Founding Partner of OneVentures  - Larry Marshall, CEO of CSIRO  - Marina Wu, Co-founder of Earlywork  - Niki Scevak, Co-founder of Blackbird - Cheryl Mack, CEO of Aussie Angels  - Preethi Mohan, Founder of Niceto  - Alan Jones, General Partner at M8 Ventures - Panel host: Simon Thomsen, editor of Startup DailyThe episode also includes a short panel with members of the Day One.FM team, Adam Spencer, Andy Jones and William Tjo, in which they discuss the creation of the documentary. Mentioned in this episode:NTP Technology Recruitment CompanyNTP is the technology recruitment company that values community and who are invested in seeing the growth of Australia's local tech community. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacyPodder - https://www.podderapp.com/privacy-policyThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

What does the future hold for the Australian startup ecosystem? After five episodes focused on the past, this episode will finally be tackling that question and look towards the future. What are our unique strengths and weaknesses as a country? What are the key challenges and opportunities we face?From investors, to academics, to government, to corporates and finally, to entrepreneurs - we highlight a variety of perspectives, looking at the individual roles each of us can play. Regardless of what seat we occupy on the bus, there is a place for people of all backgrounds in Australia’s startup community.This series was made possible by our sponsors and partners.Thanks to MYOB, AWS Startups, Investment NSW & CSIRO. We would like to acknowledge our earliest sponsors who decided to get involved with this story when it was just an idea on a piece of paper. Special thanks to UTS Startups & Murray Hurps for being our first sponsor, Western Sydney University’s LaunchPad and the Guild of Entrepreneurs.ANSTO, Canberra Innovation Network, Curtin University, University of South Australia, LaunchVic, The South Australian Government's Department of Industry, Innovation & Science, The University of Adelaide’s ThincLab, The University of Newcastle’s Integrated Innovation Network, Flinders University’s New Venture Institute, UNSW Founders, UQ Ventures & James Cook University.And to our promotional partners who have helped get this series in front of the startup community.Startup Daily, Fishburners, Spark Festival, River City Labs, Stone & Chalk and Spacecubed. Mentioned in this episode:NTP Technology Recruitment CompanyNTP is the technology recruitment company that values community and who are invested in seeing the growth of Australia's local tech community. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacyPodder - https://www.podderapp.com/privacy-policyThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Episode 5 begins during the onset of the Coronavirus Pandemic which disrupted every facet of life as we knew it. As lockdowns and other measures were enacted throughout the country, different markets and industries were affected in different, and sometimes unexpected ways.We explore the good, the bad and the ugly, looking at the unprecedented ways in which the Australian startup ecosystem grapples with the global pandemic. From frozen immigration and talent, to remote working and digitisation, to impacts on diversity and much more, finally bringing our story to the present day. We briefly look at the identity of our startup ecosystem and current, ongoing events.This series was made possible by our sponsors and partners.Thanks to MYOB, AWS Startups, Investment NSW & CSIRO. We would like to acknowledge our earliest sponsors who decided to get involved with this story when it was just an idea on a piece of paper. Special thanks to UTS Startups & Murray Hurps for being our first sponsor, Western Sydney University’s LaunchPad and the Guild of Entrepreneurs.ANSTO, Canberra Innovation Network, Curtin University, University of South Australia, LaunchVic, The South Australian Government's Department of Industry, Innovation & Science, The University of Adelaide’s ThincLab, The University of Newcastle’s Integrated Innovation Network, Flinders University’s New Venture Institute, UNSW Founders, UQ Ventures & James Cook University.And to our promotional partners who have helped get this series in front of the startup community.Startup Daily, Fishburners, Spark Festival, River City Labs, Stone & Chalk and Spacecubed. Mentioned in this episode:NTP Technology Recruitment CompanyNTP is the technology recruitment company that values community and who are invested in seeing the growth of Australia's local tech community. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacyPodder - https://www.podderapp.com/privacy-policyThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

In episode 3, we take a deep dive into the birth of the Australian startup ecosystem. Although everyone may have a different perspective on what caused this "cambrian explosion", we discuss 7 key catalysts in this episode.We shine a spotlight on the who, what, when, where and why of this critical event that formed much of what we see around us today. But underneath all this growth and excitement, we highlight that the ecosystem may perhaps still be far from perfect.This series was made possible by our sponsors and partners.Thanks to MYOB, AWS Startups, Investment NSW & CSIRO. We would like to acknowledge our earliest sponsors who decided to get involved with this story when it was just an idea on a piece of paper. Special thanks to UTS Startups & Murray Hurps for being our first sponsor, Western Sydney University’s LaunchPad and the Guild of Entrepreneurs.ANSTO, Canberra Innovation Network, Curtin University, University of South Australia, LaunchVic, The South Australian Government's Department of Industry, Innovation & Science, The University of Adelaide’s ThincLab, The University of Newcastle’s Integrated Innovation Network, Flinders University’s New Venture Institute, UNSW Founders, UQ Ventures & James Cook University.And to our promotional partners who have helped get this series in front of the startup community.Startup Daily, Fishburners, Spark Festival, River City Labs, Stone & Chalk and Spacecubed. Mentioned in this episode:NTP Technology Recruitment CompanyNTP is the technology recruitment company that values community and who are invested in seeing the growth of Australia's local tech community. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacyPodder - https://www.podderapp.com/privacy-policyThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

In this episode, we explore the seed phase of the Australian startup ecosystem, tracing its roots to some of the earliest catalysts to what we see today. Australian pioneers started innovating well before anything resembled an ecosystem and before the term "startup" was used. We tell the story of trailblazers like the Nucleus Group in 1964, Fairlight in 1975, Computershare in 1978 and much more. We look at how the macroeconomic conditions in the late 70s and early 80s encouraged the "first great wave" of Australian startups, only for global capital markets to collapse suddenly in 1987. As the new millennium approached, we highlight how the mainstream adoption of the internet gave rise to some of our most recognisable dot com juggernauts, the likes of Seek, REA and Carsales, leading up to the dot com boom.This series was made possible by our sponsors and partners.Thanks to MYOB, AWS Startups, Investment NSW & CSIRO. We would like to acknowledge our earliest sponsors who decided to get involved with this story when it was just an idea on a piece of paper. Special thanks to UTS Startups & Murray Hurps for being our first sponsor, Western Sydney University’s LaunchPad and the Guild of Entrepreneurs.ANSTO, Canberra Innovation Network, Curtin University, University of South Australia, LaunchVic, The South Australian Government's Department of Industry, Innovation & Science, The University of Adelaide’s ThincLab, The University of Newcastle’s Integrated Innovation Network, Flinders University’s New Venture Institute, UNSW Founders, UQ Ventures & James Cook University.And to our promotional partners who have helped get this series in front of the startup community.Startup Daily, Fishburners, Spark Festival, River City Labs, Stone & Chalk and Spacecubed. Mentioned in this episode:NTP Technology Recruitment CompanyNTP is the technology recruitment company that values community and who are invested in seeing the growth of Australia's local tech community. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacyPodder - https://www.podderapp.com/privacy-policyThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Steve Grace is CEO and founder of The Nudge Group, which works with startups and scale-ups to support them through various stages of business growth. Based in Australia, The Nudge Group has expanded globally with offices in the UK and Singapore. Steve also hosts the Give It A Nudge podcast, and is director of YBF Ventures. In his conversation with host Will Tjo, Steve discusses his belief that Australian companies put too much focus into the US and UK markets and too little in neighbouring Asian markets, as well as some of the ways covid has altered the ways companies do business in Australia and globally.See full show notes: https://w2d1.com/steve-graceMentioned in this episode:This episode is sponsored by NTPThis episode is sponsored by NTP NTP is the technology recruitment company that values community and who are invested in seeing the growth of Australia's local tech community. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacyPodder - https://www.podderapp.com/privacy-policyThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

John Allsopp is an author, web developer and conference organiser who’s been working in Australia’s startup ecosystem for nearly three decades. In 2006 he co-founded Web Directions, a conference series for people creating tools for the internet, at a time when the field was still relatively new. In his conversation with Adam, he discusses the very first Web Directions conference, which he sees as being “like the Woodstock of the Australian web industry”, as well as his perspective that over the last few decades the Australian startup ecosystem has evolved from a small “community” into a fully established “industry”.See full show notes: https://w2d1.com/john-allsoppMentioned in this episode:This episode is sponsored by NTPThis episode is sponsored by NTP NTP is the technology recruitment company that values community and who are invested in seeing the growth of Australia's local tech community. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacyPodder - https://www.podderapp.com/privacy-policyThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Ric Richardson is an Australian inventor who first came to prominence as a result of his invention of Software Activation, a technique used in software anti-piracy. Ric founded the Uniloc Company and entered an agreement with IBM to commercialise the invention, which Ric says has now been used on two and a half billion computers globally. In 2011 a US court awarded Uniloc $388 million in damages after Microsoft was found to have infringed on Ric’s patent, and the subsequent publicity surrounding the case led to the TV program Australian Story creating an episode covering the trial. In his conversation with Adam, Ric discusses the surge of support he received after the Australian Story episode was watched by 2 million people, and what he sees as the contrasting skills and personalities needed for creating an invention, and running a company.See full show notes: https://w2d1.com/ric-richardsonMentioned in this episode:This episode is sponsored by NTPThis episode is sponsored by NTP NTP is the technology recruitment company that values community and who are invested in seeing the growth of Australia's local tech community. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacyPodder - https://www.podderapp.com/privacy-policyThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Brad Parsons is CEO and founder of Movus, a company that provides monitoring tools for industrial equipment with the mission of preserving the earth’s resources by improving the efficiency and life of industrial assets. At the time of recording Movius is active in 16 countries, and has ambitions for further growth. In his conversation with guest host Will Tjo, Brad discusses how he has seen an increased emphasis on funding for startups with a focus on environmental sustainability, as well as his belief that Australia’s startup ecosystem suffers from a greater degree of risk aversion than other nations.See full show notes: https://w2d1.com/brad-parsonsMentioned in this episode:This episode is sponsored by NTPThis episode is sponsored by NTP NTP is the technology recruitment company that values community and who are invested in seeing the growth of Australia's local tech community. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacyPodder - https://www.podderapp.com/privacy-policyThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/