Chewing the Fat Podcast with Mike

PART ONE: NORTH KOREA - THE BIG PICTURE

PETER WILSON is the secretary for NZ-DPRK Society - a North Korean advocacy group based in New Zealand.

MIKE gets Peter's take on why NK does weird stuff, why America needs NK to do weird stuff, the technocrats' influence, and how NK is both totalitarian and not at the same time.

KRIS SHANNON is a sports journalist for NZ HERALD.

JAKE gets Kris' take on whether sports journalism is 'real' journalism, The Bachelor stories vs. real journalism, how sport justifies our existence as a country, if sports adds or subtracts from anti-intellectualism in NZ, and a sneaky peak into the world of the All Blacks.

Penelope was a sex worker for 10 years. We talk about how it still affects her personal sex life, the idea of the 'desperate prostitute', and awkward foursomes.

AIDAN MACNAUGHTON has a keen eye for philosophy. We talk about the mind-body problem, his personal existential threats and how comfy armchairs are not.

Episode 19 - GREG CROOKS (PART II) has some pretty wild ideas. We talk about controlling the weather, the similarities between conspiracy theories and religion, and the evil United Nations.

PLUS one of his tracks, Trick With Your Life

GREG CROOKS aka SARU G is a conscious hip-hop artist and activist. We discuss what conscious hip-hop actually is, activism through pacifism and his favourite conspiracy theory.

PLUS we listen to, and discuss, some of his tracks.

TALI WILLIAMS is a union organiser having worked for First Union, SFWU, EPMU and Finsec, has travelled to the Middle East as part of Kia Ora Gaza and wants to remove parliamentary politics.

PHIL DONOVAN & JORDAN HENNING are anarcho-capitalists (anarchism through a framework of pure capitalism), and the co-directors of Anarkiwi.org. We talk about dismantling the state and their institutions, slavery in socialist societies, whether freedom is absolute of relative, legislating against incest, and Phil's experience of being the president of Young ACT.

ELIZABETH COLLINS is an abolitionist vegan, advocates for anti-speciesism, operates a vegan advocacy cart, and has a podcast, NZ Vegan Podcast.

We chat about concepts of property and personhood with animals, the welfarist vs. abolitionist debate, the compatibility of veganism in a globalised and industrialised world, whether Mollusca and insects have sentience, moral schizophrenia, why she started NZ Vegan Podcast, & her favourite vegan recipe for non-vegans.

Links:

Moral Schizophrenia: http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/a-note-on-moral-schizophrenia/

Quinoa w/ lentils & sauteed greens

GEOFF DALE has been a photographer for 47 years and covered some of NZ’s biggest moments, released a book, Press Pass, and has won five QANTAS awards for his photography.

We chat about how to read a situation and get the best picture to tell the story, how it felt to be covering major historical moments in NZ, the changes in photography and photojournalism, favourite gear and film stocks, plus Geoff takes us through his favourite pictures in his book, Press Pass.