(My apologies. The version sent earlier this morning had the audio of last week’s podcast attached. It was good, but not that good. I have now updated with this week’s podcast. This is my error and please accept my apologies.)

The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night features co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking about the week’s news with regular and special guests, including:

* Robert Patman, Helen Clark and Elaine Monaghan on the week in geopolitics, including Donald Trump’s wrecking of the post-WW II politicial landscape; and,

* Cathrine Dyer on the week in climate news, including news of polar ice coverage falling to historic lows, NZ First trying to force banks to lend to coal miners, petrol stations and farmers, and Fonterra paying farmers extra to reduce emissions intensity.

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 link to the video above was added after the email was sent to all subscribers.

This Donald Trump post was a subject of the discussion.

The Hoon won the silver award for best current affairs podcast in this 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.)

Ngā mihi nui.

Bernard

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