The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night features co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer and Robert Patman about the global economy, local and international politics and climate change.

This week’s special guests were primary school teacher Lucas Campbell and BusinessDesk Founding Editor Pattrick Smellie.

This week’s Hoon featured discussions about:

* Speeches by US President Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly in New York and China’s President Xi Jinping at the UN Climate Summit with Robert.

* Cathrine talked about President Xi’s pledge that China would cut climate emissions 7-10% by 2035 (Reuters) and this comment piece via Newsroom from Kevin Trenberth about the latest climate science, and the latest misinformation.

* Lucas talked about cirruculum reforms, teachers’ strikes and a 1% pay offer to teachers.

* Pattrick talked about this week’s Mood of the Boardroom survey on the cabinet’s performance and the appointment of a new Reserve Bank Governor.

* The ‘Skateboarding Dog’ item at the end was about this video via BlueSky showing a sperm whale eating a giant squid.

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 this year’s New Zealand Podcast awards.

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Ngā mihi nui.

Bernard

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