Australians are urged to turn off their dishwashers as the power crisis deepens, President Biden's bear market continues and pump prices hit $2.50 hurting everyone's pocket except the Tesla-driving super rich.

Plus laundromat rage and the English cricket team go back on the squirt.

Nick Cater and veteran blogger and barbecue chef Tim Blair are joined by Kel Richard, the Etymologist who dictionary compilers around the world keep on speed-dial to solve those knotty semantic puzzles that leave every once else stumped.