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KOHLER & KOHLER: Should childcare be free?

Chris and Alan look at whether childcare could be made free… and what sort of impacts that would have. Then again, maybe Chris is just trying to score some extra babysi

BONUS EPISODE: Is Nvidia a bubble?

Chris sits down with veteran IG Markets analyst Tony Sycamore to discuss the dizzying valuations being achieved by Nvidia to ask the technical question… is this a bubble?

BONUS EPISODE: Where To Next For House Prices?

Chris sits down with Mortgage Choice CEO Anthony Waldron for a 'randomised' chat that gives advice on how to navigate falling house prices, rising interest rates and chan

How They Got Us To Pay For Music Again

Napster made music free in 2000 and the music industry was never the same. So why are we still paying for music decades later? Chris talks to Osher Günsberg and consumer

How IKEA tricks you... over and over

IKEA is a barn filled with two types of things - furniture... and psychology.The story of the world's biggest furniture business is one filled with tricks and traps that

Why Uber Eats Is About To Get Even More Expensive

Australia just gave gig delivery workers a legal minimum wage. It's a big win for workers - and it means your Uber Eats order is about to get even more expensive. Here's

How Housing Became So Broken

Chris and Alan Kohler talk about the housing crisis that is shaping the Australian economy. It's a puzzle, so Chris made Alan a crossword - can he crack it while simultan

The Toxic Economy of Gaming

The video game industry makes more money than movies and music combined - and it got there by deploying the greatest hits of dark consumer psychology. Gambling, paywalls,

Why Are All Our Movies Ads Now?

When we watch a movie we see 4-5 brands every 10 minutes. The advertising is hidden in plain sight and this episode goes looking for where and how that trick first came t

Hang on... was Tupperware a pyramid scheme?

Tupperware is one of those words so common we forgot it's a brand. It's also one of the great untold business stories, with a pioneer who was deliberately erased from vie

Ryanair: How The Bad Guy Won

A cheap flight… that ends up feeling expensive.  This episode: how Ryanair and Michael O'Leary perfected drip pricing and made billions doing it.  Removing olives, lukewa

How Kodak Engineered Its Own Demise (Literally)

Kodak didn’t make a mistake. The digital camera was invented in their own building but it was missing more than film. It was missing a business model. 0:00 Intro 3:15 Two

Kellogg’s: The Disturbing Reason Corn Flakes Exist

This episode contains adult topics and themes Ever wondered how the world's most popular cereal ended up in your breakfast bowl? The story behind Cornflakes is stranger

Blockbuster blew $8 billion. We’re still paying for it

A complete corporate disaster. Blockbuster stuffed up so badly that the world started walking down a path away from one-off payments and towards subscriptions. And the be

How Nazi Brothers Changed Sports Marketing Forever

Adidas vs. Puma. Two brothers. One town. A feud that changed sport forever.   Adolf and Rudolf began as partners, cobbling shoes together in central Germany before a fami

Introducing.... How We Got Here

Business history is wilder than you think.   Join finance journalist and digital storyteller, Chris Kohler, as he delves into the corporate moments that were too ridiculo

Introducing... Kohler Media

Money, business and the economy, with a few laughs along the way. Kohler Media is home to two podcasts: How We Got Here: Chris Kohler tells the weird and wild business