The Democrat nominee for US President Joe Biden has chosen Kamala Harris to run with him on the national ticket as vice president. Harris is the first woman of colour to run on a major national party ticket in the United States. What is the impact of a vice-presidential candidate on the success of the national ticket? What is the role of the vice president electorally and within the governance of the presidency? Doug Becker speaks with Jeremi Suri and Arthur Auerbach.

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This week during Zoë Larsen Cumming's weekly chat with Green Party co-leader James Shaw, they talk about the campaigning suspension, the election, the agriculture industry and whether the opportunity the first lockdown posed for a fresh and greener future coming out of the first lock down was realised. 

A Youth Worker Confidence Survey as shown that young New Zealanders are bearing the brunt of Covid 19. To find out more Zoë Larsen Cumming interview Stand Up's co-convener and Massey University researcher Zoë Port. 

Zoë Larsen Cummin talks to Youthline's Clinical Services Manager Julian Barnett about the effect of a second lockdown on mental health and possible correlations between heightened anxiety and the growing spread of misinformation regarding Covid 19. 

Auckland Councillor Richard Hills spoke to Oscar Perress about how the Council's Environment and Climate Change Committee and Te Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri, the Auckland Climate Action Framework, are working towards a more climate positive future for Tāmaki Makaurau. 

This week, Sam takes a look at Goo, the sixth studio album from American alternative rock group Sonic Youth. Released in 1990, this album became an essential classic in the alternative cannon. 

Tracks played

- Dirty Boots

- Kool Thing 

- Tunic (Song for Karen)

This show was cobbled together during shifts at at my day job, serving customers out the window and jamming as much horrible shit as I can on the stereo, an attempt at pouring a weekful of paranoia into one tape. I'm back making and broadcasting these from home again, will hopefully use this lockdown to finish all the projects I've got lined up.

Broadcast from Lee's house during the Rāhui. Stay safe, and keep eating pancakes! 

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