{"podcast":{"title":"Do Go On","slug":"do-go-on-216756","podcast_index_feed_id":216756,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/60de27e6-b679-4a3b-a9aa-53fa8e6d0313","website_url":"https://dogoonpod.com/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/610b01c34d914bfe9b341828/1636094784590-c0f8c96bf98e513aea1c23a62ca8aa6b.jpeg","author":"Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke","episode_count":582,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/do-go-on-216756"},"episode":{"title":"549 - The Great 'Oil Sniffer' Scandal","slug":"549-the-great-oil-sniffer-scandal","published_at":"2026-04-29T01:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/do-go-on-216756/549-the-great-oil-sniffer-scandal","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/do-go-on-216756","url":"https://shows.acast.com/do-go-on/episodes/549-the-great-oil-sniffer-scandal","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/do-go-on/e/69ef52dc69ec53fde3e3badd/media.mp3","summary":"The 1970s was rocked by two oil crises, and countries were desperate to find alternative sources of fuel. So when two eccentric inventors stepped forward with a machine that could supposedly detect untapped oil from the air, surely it wasn't too good to be true? And surely, the French government would do their due diligence before investing BILLIONS of dollars in the idea? This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 04:57 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report). For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod   Check out our other podcasts: Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/ Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/ Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/ Jess Writes A Rom-Com: https://shows.acast.com/jess-writes-a-rom-com Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.  REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING: https://www.aapg.org/news-and-media/details/explorer/articleid/49011/the-great-oil-sniffer-hoax?srsltid=AfmBOor7GigSDOAZWyUpgkbs3SjE6P1u5yxUa8HV5n_-mNsSj_6GhX81 https://www.thenation.com/article/world/autoworkers-and-sniffing-planes/ https://web.archive.org/web/20101029125144/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,954097,00.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/01/07/publication-of-french-scandal-report-grips-nation/d835b7a7-54a0-4ca9-8d88-3db03d8a0308/   https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/02/world/a-fiasco-in-france-planes-that-can-sniff-out-oil.html https://www.bbc.com/news…","meta_description":"The 1970s was rocked by two oil crises, and countries were desperate to find alternative sources of fuel. So when two eccentric inventors stepped forward…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7053,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/do-go-on-216756/episodes/549-the-great-oil-sniffer-scandal/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/do-go-on-216756/549-the-great-oil-sniffer-scandal.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}