Discourse

By Morgan Avery

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The podcast currently has 20 episodes available.

Discourse episodes:

October 15, 2014 Episode 5.14: Beef and blue cheese.

* Alicia Silverstone’s vegan son
* Beef and blue cheese takes top sausage award – 3 News
* Housing affordability plummets across New Zealand – TVNZ
* The Ebola Outbreak Means Chocolate May Be Expensive And Lousy – UPROXX
* Pentagon document lays out battle plan against zombies – CNN.com
* Microsoft is ‘coaching’ NFL announcers not to call the Surface an iPad – The Verge
* IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML
* Should NZ police be armed? – 3 News

* Police officers stole drugs – Stuff.co.nz

* Even the Pentagon agrees: climate change is a ‘threat multiplier’ – The Verge
* Dropbox Confirms Compromised Accounts But Says Its Servers Weren’t Hacked – TechCrunch

* Dropbox (not) hacked, but hackers claim 7 million accounts for sale – MetaFilter

* ISO 4217 Currency Codes
* Glassons taken to task over skinny mannequin – Life & Style – NZ Herald News

What’s your aunty been talking about?

* The Walking Dead (TV Series 2010– ) – IMDb
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1h 4min
October 08, 2014 Episode 5.13: One With Your Trigger.
With special guest Amberleigh Jack, writer.

* Nicky Hager’s house raided by police – 3 News

* Fifth Estate – Wikipedia

* Man arrested for shooting drone – Boing Boing
* Auckland blackout: Aucklanders make the best of a difficult situation – NZ Herald News
* Man exercising right to open carry robbed at gun point – Boing Boing
* White Ohio woman sues over sperm from black donor – SFGate

* Heterosis – Wikipedia

* Windows 9 Reportedly Skipped as Name Would Have Created Code Bugs – DailyTech

* Windows 10 doesn’t fix the desktop—it fixes Windows 8’s reputation – Ars Technica
* History of Microsoft Windows – Wikipedia

* Jennifer Lawrence says nude photo theft is a ‘sex crime’ – The Verge
* Lady Gaga chills by shooting beer cans – 3 News
* Economists unsure on housing market – Stuff.co.nz
* Speakerphone
* Lab-grown penises ready for testing – Boing Boing
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1h 27min
October 01, 2014 Episode 5.12: We Are Not Lawyers

* Shellshock
* Labour candidate’s stinging open letter to Cunliffe – NZ Herald News

* An Open Letter To David Cunliffe – Public Address
* Trevor Mallard sick of ‘shutting up’ – 3 News

* Polaroid Cube

* Leak Shows HTC’s Alleged GoPro Action Camera Competitor
* GoPro – HERO4 Black camera – 2x the performance. 4K30, 2.7K50 and 1080p120 video.
* The GoPro 4 real world evolving review…. Part 1: Initial fiddling | Philip Bloom

* Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Drones (HBO) – YouTube
* Guess Which 8 Countries the U.S. is Waging Secret Drone Campaigns Against? – Mic

What’s your aunty been talking about?

* Survivor
* The Amazing Race
* Manhattan
* Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
* The Flash
* Scorpion
* Four Lions (2010) – IMDb
* Jumper (2008) – IMDb
* Shooter (2007) – IMDb

* Shooter – Rotten Tomatoes

* The Thin Blue Line (1988) – IMDb

* Errol Morris – IMDb

* Scorpion (TV Series 2014–...
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1h 25min
September 24, 2014 Episode 5.11: Postmortem
We talk a lot about the election, and a bit about our election show.

* Election 2014 – FACT or FICTION? – Radio New Zealand News
* Big bounce in South Island wallaby numbers – Stuff.co.nz
* Blue the new red in Labour bastions – NZ Herald News
* Labour Party in civil war over leadership – 3 News
* No Right Turn: The problem with Labour
* Election 2014: the no threshold counterfactual – Public Address
* A call from Curia – Public Address
* Key moves for poll on change to flag – Stuff.co.nz
* Labour must own ‘crushing defeat’: Shearer – Stuff.co.nz
* Big brands silent on New Zealand’s inflated prices :: Idealog :: the magazine and website of New Zealand creative business, ideas and innovation
* Council still pushing for early start on rail link – 3 News
* ‘Deadpool’ May Be Gunning For A PG-13 Rating – UPROXX

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1h 16min
September 17, 2014 Episode 5.10: The Novel Idea That Women Are People
With guest Siobhan Keogh, games writer with the New Zealand Herald.

* It’s a girl: Te Papa’s colossal squid – Stuff.co.nz
* LAPD handcuffs black actress for kissing white boyfriend – Boing Boing
* US Army opens door for women in the elite – 3 News
* The #Gamergate Question – TechCrunch

* Anita Sarkeesian shares the most radical thing you can do to support women online – The Verge
* Study: Adult Women Play More Video Games Than Teen Boys – Complex
* Chat logs show how 4chan users created #GamerGate controversy – Ars Technica
* Video Games, Misogyny, And Terrorism: A Guide To Assholes – Badass Digest
* The #Gamergate Answer – TechCrunch
* The steel man of #GamerGate – Medium
* Support The Owen/Aurini Team creating The Sarkeesian Effect

* US military to lead Ebola fight – Stuff.co.nz
* Fans hope Microsoft doesn’t change Minecraft – 3 News
* Scottish referendum too close to call – 3 News

* Flora of Scotland

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1h 8min
September 10, 2014 Episode 5.09: If only this was a tech podcast.
This week we’re joined by guest Juha Saarinen, technology writer for the New Zealand Herald (and in loads of other places), to talk a bit about the recent Spark outage.

* Juha Saarinen: XT time all over again? – NZ Herald News

* Spark blames outage on bad modems – Stuff.co.nz
* Kiwis caught out by cyber attacks – 3 News
* Celebrity Nude Picture Scandal: Kiwis face internet meltdown trying to see photos

* Cards Against Humanity – #Decision14 Edition ~ Rachel Rayner
* Russian cyber war linked to Spark crash – Stuff.co.nz
* BBC: ISPs Should Assume VPN Users Are Pirates – Slashdot
* The insane TiVo Mega costs $5,000, can record three years of TV, and looks like a rack server – The Verge
* Giving up on Doctor Who – MetaFilter
* No free lunches for hungry kids says Colin Craig – 3 News
* ‘Frozen chicken’ tax cut predicted – 3 News
* Nats promise to keep military bases open – NZ Herald News
* LegaSea harpoons National’s fishing parks – Stuff.co.nz
* Boaties warned to avoid Rena exclusion zone – 3 News
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1h 8min
September 03, 2014 Episode 5.08: Leak culture.
With special guest Russell Brown, host of Media Take on Māori TV, and founder of Public Address.

* Election 2014: Who won the second leaders’ debate? – NZ Herald
* Media Take – Māori Television
* Why we thought what we thought – Hard News

* Hacker Disrupts New Zealand Election Campaign – Slashdot
* Bloggers targeted business journalist – Stuff.co.nz

* Don’t look at leaked nudes Dunham – 3 News

* Pics ‘promote rape culture’ – Stuff.co.nz
* Tell creepy men on the internet how you really feel – The Verge

* Empty fridges highlight Kiwi poverty – 3 News
* Interactive: See how well off you are with our inequality calculator – NZ Herald News
* Front Up
* The words a new mum hates to hear – Stuff.co.nz

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1h 51min
August 27, 2014 Episode 5.07: Campaign to save the v8.
With special guest Luke Christensen, Generation Zero‘s spokesperson for the Congestion Free Network plan. And Paul Young from the Climate Voter campaign.

* The Congestion Free Network

* The Details — The Congestion Free Network
* Financial — The Congestion Free Network
* Congestion Free Network « transportblog.co.nz
* Transport – Vote Positive – New Zealand Labour Party

* Climate Voter New Zealand

* Some NZ centres may have to be abandoned – climate scientist – National News | TVNZ
* No Right Turn: Climate change: The impacts on New Zealand
* Climate Voter New Zealand
* Climate Voter (ClimateVoterNZ) on Twitter
* No Right Turn: Climate voter hits 2%
* No Right Turn: Climate change: Difficult to ignore

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54min
August 20, 2014 Episode 5.06: At the end of the day.
With guest Dr Matthew Dentith, scholar of conspiracy theories and host of The Podcaster’s Guide to the Conspiracy.
And guest Adam Boileau, security consultant and organiser of KiwiCon hacker conference.

* Duncan Garner: Dirtiest election campaign ever – and mud sticks – RadioLIVE

* I’ve either been hacked or spied on | Kiwiblog
* No Right Turn: Politics does not have to be dirty
* Slater’s ‘feral’ post still resonates with victim’s family – 3 News
* Why is the Prime Minister standing by Collins? – 3 News
* John Armstong: Hager’s claims light a fuse under the State of Key – NZ Herald News
* Key: Collins subject of ‘smear campaign’ | Stuff.co.nz
* Some changes for Kiwiblog | Kiwiblog
* Five reasons why you should vote – NZ Herald News
* New Zealand General Election 2014 – Vote Compass – TVNZ

* Police Association pushes for fulltime Tasers, guns – 3 News

* Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization (HBO) – YouTube
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1h 43min
August 13, 2014 Episode 5.05: What will your verse be?
Take only selfies, leave only padlocks.

* On the fence
* Key effigy burner lashes out at PM – 3 News

* Election billboard vandals frustrate parties – 3 News

* Labour ‘buying their way back’ – Key – 3 News

* Govt: New Auckland schools to be built – 3 News

* Civilian Party reaches threshold to register – 3 News
* Microsoft reignites Mac vs. PC conflict for new Surface Pro 3 ads | The Verge
* Microsoft transforms bumpy GoPro videos into smooth works of art | The Verge
* 3D Object Manipulation in a Single Photograph using Stock 3D Models – YouTube
* Thieves steal 100kg of mince – crime – national | Stuff.co.nz
* Wine and cigarettes not the same – NZ winemakers – 3 News
* 10-year NZ passports could return – at a cost | Stuff.co.nz
* Paris pleads for tourists to savour eternal love with a selfie – 3 News
* Robin Williams Leaves Behind Four Movies Including ‘Night at the Museum 3’ – TheWrap
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1h 18min

FAQs about Discourse:

How many episodes does Discourse have?

The podcast currently has 20 episodes available.