Susie Ferguson obliterates Christopher Luxon in a must hear conversation when Mr Luxon tells the RNZ audience all the things that the health system needs to change that are poor under the Labour government, but when Susie presses him on how to make those changes and how to pay for them, Mr Luxon comes up a little short on depth.

Cornel West on Bill Maher and the importance of absolutism when it comes to your vote and how we should never be forced to settle for a 'milk toast' politician and/or policy. We chat about this and also wonder where the line is of standing by your principles and playing politics to attempt to get the end result you are looking for.

Shocking new revelations from the Uvalde massacre where we learn today that the police are actively covering up their inadequacies and ineptitude. We now understand that the classroom door where the shooter was was unlocked and the police had all the firearms they needed to breach that room 3 minutes into the seige

Bryce Edwards on TGA bi-election and Christopher Luxon's claim that this is evidence that "New Zealanders are fed up with a Labour Government". We also want to look at the idea of the current tribal nature of politics, and society for that matter, where if you are not 100% in agreement with me, then you are my enemy.

Krystal Ball decimates Bill Maher on inflation in some fantastic live television. we also look at what is the truth behind inflation AND why petrol prices are so high.

A fantastic fall from grace for a Republican would be governor who has needed to become anti drag queen to be elected...only her past would say otherwise.

Dr Tim Mackle is the CEO of Dairy NZ chats with us about the dairy industry. Chris Huriwai. co-producer of the documentary "Milked, White lies in Dairy Land" joins the conversation and both Ben and Chris converse with each other and via our questions about what is the truth in the dairy industry.

Byron C Clark was trending on twitter last night for his interaction with a controversial YouTuber and alleged white supremacist and Clarks call for the man to be deported

NZ needs a COVID action plan for schools

Dr Amanda Kvalsvig has a dual background in clinical paediatrics and epidemiology. Her research activities currently have a strong focus on New Zealand's response to the COVID-19 pandemic; she is lead researcher of Co-Search, a COVID-19 research collaborative led by Professor Michael Baker. She is also lead researcher of SYMBIOTIC, a newly-funded HRC programme led by Michael Baker which aims to investigate the two-way relationships between infectious disease and long-term conditions.

China in the Pacific

The University of Waikato's Dr Alexander Gillespie recently wrote a piece entitled "To meet the Chinese challenge in the Pacific, NZ needs to put its money where its mouth is"

Former MP and Minster Chester Borrows says National attempting to ban gang patches is "will not work" and it's a policy made for headlines

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300610969/it-will-not-work-excop-and-national-mp-says-partys-gang-policy-is-made-for-headlines

Duncan Grieve writes that over the last 20 years in watching TV we've seen an "immense scale of audience decline"

https://thespinoff.co.nz/tv/16-06-2022/leaked-20-years-of-tv-ratings-showing-the-immense-scale-of-audience-decline?fbclid=IwAR2vWxuaC2r8CoIhQB_a0oUxGbHD0UaQEhoGLq8potJrN99tFFGHAhtZAes&fs=e&s=cl

And looking again at Paddy Gowers drinking documentary from Three/Discovery

https://www.threenow.co.nz/shows/patrick-gower%253A-on-booze/S3752-746

Bethlehem College

College asking parents to sign a document stating marriage is between a man and a woman possibly about to be investigated by the Ministry

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bethlehem-college-ministry-of-education-tells-christian-school-to-remove-marriage-line/T44T677WEIMAOL7FTBNAOKV4KI/

Nationwide Alcohol debate?

Paddy Gowers documentary about alcohol has reignited the drinking culture conversation in NZ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwujaUtJLiY&t=145s&ab_channel=Newshub

Shortage of teachers

We need more teachers, and worrying stats out of the UK with teachers leaving the profession due to long covid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdCxC16MBM4&ab_channel=1News

Calls to police for mental health on the rise

https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/06/15/exclusive-mental-health-distress-calls-to-police-on-the-rise/

Dr Fiona Hutton from Victoria University of how therapeutic Cannabis still out of reach for many

Accusations that Minister Kiri Allan wanted less Te Reo used at the DoC

Christopher Luxon needed to explain his speech on gangs as he spent most of his time talk co-governance, bureaucracy and Government spending

Some thoughts around new Jan 6th Committee information released today and maybe if time we'll look at hospitals preparing for winter influx of patients

Jan 6th Committee with disinformation researcher Byron C Clark

Death threats against Jacinda Ardern with Dr Suze Wilson

The Cabinet reshuffle

Follow up on Louise Wallace and the fall out from her 'fat' comments

Recently James Hake did a fairly inaccurate piece on NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on his YouTube Show The Hake Report. This is when we became aware of his work, this conversation was to talk about that video...the additional 2 hours of content is a roving look into the mind of a right wing commentator who seems to take as gospel what he hears from the front of his church and the people over him in his work...who happen to be the same person the infamous Jesse Lee Peterson, without a critical eye or the ability to question the source.

Cellular Immunologist Dr Anna Brooks' current research is in COVID-19 and the post-viral condition, Long COVID.

Dr Brooks' primary research interest brings together her strong expertise in multicolour flow cytometry, cellular immunology and mesenchymal stromal cell biology to try and better understand immune/stromal cell interactions in health and disease.

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