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:

* The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer on the latest climate news, including another extreme climate event in the United States;

* Robert Patman on the escalating conflict between Israel, Iran and Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon; and,

* Special guest Dr David Galler, a former intensive care specialist at Middlemore Hospital, board member of the Health Coalition Aotearoa and author of the semi-autobiographical book Things That Matter: Stories of Life & Death.

The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded on Thursday night during a live webinar for over 120 paying subscribers and was produced by Simon Josey.

Bernard mentioned in the episode he interviewed former Kāinga Ora director Philippa Howden-Chapman at a public event in Auckland last Friday night. The video of that is here and below.

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Ngā mihi nui.

Bernard

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