The Weekly Hoon:
From The Kākā by Bernard Hickey · 1:01:55
Show by Bernard Hickey
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and local politics with regular guests Robert Patman and Cathrine Dyer, plus special guests BusinessDesk-$ co-founder Pattrick Smellie and Newsroom Pro-$ Managing Editor Jonathan Milne.We discussed:* the ‘Overhang Election’ results, including Pattrick’s column for BusinessDesk-$ titled: The Outrageous Bollocks of Harry Mowbray, and Jonathan’s report for Newsroom titled: In the Zuru mansion with the rich listers behind the new campaign to get rid of MMP; * the latest from COP31 and a discussion with Cathrine about Opportunity’s bottom lines on climate; and,* Bernard mentioned Lisa Owen’s interview with RNZ CEO Paul Thompson about RNZ’s budget shock as the week’s ‘skateboarding dog.’The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded on Thursday night during a live webinar for over 200 paying subscribers and was produced and edited by Simon Josey.The Hoon won the silver award for best current affairs podcast in last year’s New Zealand Podcast awards. (This is a sampler for all free subscribers and anyone else who stumbles on it. Thanks to the support of paying subscribers here, we’re able to spread my public interest journalism here about housing affordability, climate change and poverty reduction other public venues. Join the community supporting and contributing to this work with your ideas, feedback and comments, and by subscribing in full. Remember, all students and teachers who sign up for the free version with their .ac.nz and .school.nz email accounts are automatically upgraded to the paid version for free.)Ngā mihi nui.Bernard This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe
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