The Shooting Breezes podcast follows Brad and Jacqui as they discuss what news piqued their interest this week, and the final to end all finals in their weekly trivia competition.

Jacqui has a question for Brad: what does he have a 100% success record on? If you think it would be kill shots, you’d be dead wrong. The answer has something to do the last two years of fatherhood, and it makes Jacqui one happy human. Brad serves up some sports trivia this week – can you guess which sport these ‘moves’ belong to? It’s a Sal Chow of a game, and a winner is finally announced.

Brad wants to stay away from any negative news this week and looks to the ‘space’ space. NASA has revealed plans to fly an unmanned helicopter on Mars. The ‘Ingenuity’ (great name!) is planned for deployment in 2021 from the Perseverance rover as part of the Mars 2020 mission. It’s just the next small step (flight) for man (unmanned robot).

Jacqui doesn’t stay way from negative news this week and wants to discuss Brazil’s response to the Corona virus, and the effect it’s having on its indigenous populations. With communities losing their “living libraries” to the pandemic, its only one instance of how the virus disproportionately affects different communities and populations.

And at last, blue-sky thinking. Brad, inspired by an old episode of the Netflix TV series Black Mirror, wants to talk about video surveillance technology invading every moment of our lives, and whether life will indeed imitate fiction. The two hosts discuss the Amazon Ring, Google glasses, and the advent of smart cities on their journey to discovering whether any privacy will remain for citizens in the future.

This was the penultimate episode for Season 3 of the Shooting Breezes podcast, and what a season it has been. Join us for the last episode next week and until then, catch us on Twitter @shootinbreezes.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jun/21/brazil-losing-generation-indigenous-leaders-covid-19

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/science/mars-helicopter-nasa.html