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Tuesdays mean You're the Judge; that's our weekly segment where we get your judgement on an irk, an issue, or a situation you need guidance on. It can be big issues like repairing friendships or separating couples into different retirement home, or smaller ones like whether it's okay to kiss your pet then kiss your partner. Today we're looking at if you should tell the truth at any cost. We love getting your reckons on 2101.

Time to talk about what's happening in the world of technology, Tim Batt joins me and we're going to start by looking at the new White House ballroom and what might lie beneath. Tim and Jesse also discuss the case of Meta and YouTube being sued by a young woman.

There's a long history of Kiwi musicians writing songs to support a good cause. Audioculture Te Iwi Waiata's Gareth Shute has been investigating the songs and the stories behind them. He chats to Jesse.

Book critic Lisa Glass joins Jesse to discuss three books that are ''speculative light'; novels with an element of sci fi for people who don't like sci fi. The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey - Penguin Books New Zealand The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley - Hodder & Stoughton Kings of This World - Elizabeth Knox - Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand

We're going to talk bunkers now, because a company that builds them says it's seen inquiries from New Zealanders double since the start of the Iran war. So how much space do you need to put in a bunker, what do they even look like, and how do you go about designing and building them? Here to help answer those questions is Louis Clarke, principal of Hardened Protective Technologies.

A fragment of a jawbone found in a cave in Somerset, UK, has revealed that dogs became man's best buddy 15,000 years ago. DNA analysis shows the jaw belonged to one of the earliest known domesticated dogs which suggest the friendship between the very first dogs and stone age humans was there almost from the very start. Originally from Kaikoura, Dr Lachie Scarsbrook is an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Oxford's Research Laboratory for Archaeology. He chats to Jesse.

A couple of months ago, one of you got in touch to ask about the welfare of animals on farms, and whether their wellbeing in heat, cold or rain was considered. We know that rising temperatures and heat stress are growing issues for humans - but what about the animals many of us rely on for our food? We called in a farmer to give us his perspective - joining us now from a dairy farm southwest of Te Awamutu, it's Pete Morgan.

President Trump has threatened to "obliterate" Iran's oil export hub of Kharg Island, oil wells and power plants if it does not soon agree to a deal to end the war even as he claimed talks were going well. But a spokesperson for Iran has once again denied any negotiations with US officials. Here to try and help us make sense of it all, Jesse is joined by Retired Major General John Howard. He is a former New Zealand Chief of Defence Intelligence and also a former Deputy Director at the US Defence Intelligence Agency in Washington DC.

When you recover from cancer, everyone celebrates. When you're dying, they grieve. But when you're managing to stay alive with terminal cancer that cannot be cured, the world doesn't quite know what to do. This is where broadcaster Joanna Paul-Robie finds herself. In the middle. Four years ago, she was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of breast cancer at stage 4. Constant chemo and drug therapy is keeping her alive. A recent piece in The Guardian newspaper articulated this middle ground in a way Joanna had found difficult to convey to friends and family. She's sharing her story to help others understand the stamina and constant calculations needed to work out how to spend the time and energy the long middle requires.

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