Today on the show...

• Looking tonight at the the state of the economy with a man who spent 20 years in the Beehive working for National Governments. He says we are heading for an Argentina style meltdown.
• Andrew Barnes the man behind the four day working week joins me to chat about the government ordering everyone back to the office - Barnes is baffled.
• She came from the slums in Philippines married off at 16 to a man who forced her to clean hotel rooms for the next 27 years and she also had 3 kids. Nilda Brown is the current Mrs. NZ and she now runs the contest. her story is nothing short of a miracle!

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• Luka, Metska and Buster are all about to finish their first year of high school. So what was it like transitioning from intermediate to high school and what have they learned? With so much talk about social media, we will ask the boys to reveal live their screen time daily use, and why are they so addicted to their screens and even more to find what makes our teen boys tick.

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• Fresh for her performance at the Herald Mood of the boardroom where she shared the stage with Finance Minister Nicola Willis, Labour's Finance Spokesperson Barbara Edmonds joins me - is this Labour's next leader and next Prime Minister?
• Also tonight, Associate Education Minister David Seymour on the progress towards the roll out of the first charter schools. And given the PPTA continue to refuse to be interviewed over their plans for Queer Guidance Counsellors in all schools - we ask David Seymour if he supports such plans.

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• As thousands of kiwis lose their jobs we look at where the jobs are, and what isn't being advertised in the hidden job market.
• How to avoid a parking ticket as the fines almost double. Auckland Transport Head of Fines and Enforcement, Rick Bidgood is with us.
• And J.P from celebrity treasure joins me to wrap things up.

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• Labour’s deputy leader Carmel Sepuloni joins me shortly to tell me why she went on celebrity treasure island, why all MPs should do it given the chance and what she learned about having no phone for the duration.
• And are we now doing irreversible damage to the NZ economy with these back breakingly high interest rates? If the answer is yes, then surely there is a case for the Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr to aggressively cut OCR next week. We chat to Brad Olsen from Infometrics for his take.

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Tonight a special show looking at our boys.

• Turning boys into good men is easier said than done. So hard that six NZ boys schools got together in July and flew US academic and author Andrew Reiner to New Zealand to talk to the boys and their at times bewildered parents.

• Andrew Reiner is my guest tonight, the author of 2020′s Better Boys, Better Men: The New Masculinity That Creates Greater Courage and Emotional Resiliency.

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• Test two of the Bledisloe Cup is tomorrow - let's break it down. Martian Devlin, sports broadcaster with decades of experience, has been there for the All Black's ups and downs I’ll get his take on tomorrow's match.
• And I got the scoop of the year from ACT Party Leader, David Seymour yesterday - let's expand on the issue.

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Stop targeting us with your booze deals, says a group of Otago students. Never in our day, but the students for sensible drug policy Otepoti have objected  to the renewal  of the on-license at the Speights heritage center in Dunedin

A new survey has found the majority of workplaces need help when it comes to Friday drinks. Should it still be putting on drinks? What is their responsibilities and has it got too hard? Virginia Nichols is with the Alcohol and Beverages council, and she joins us tonight.

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• If you wee to sit down today and watch all the available porn in NZ today and it would take you 160 odd years. So Holly Brooker and Jo Robertson have, on your behalf and on behalf of our kids, been doing something about it.
• And have you heard about the Katikati Coffin Club? 400 members, designing coffins. Some have made pool table coffins, others have made boats as coffins. A 10 dollar, one time payment and you get to talk about death and get ready for it… love it!

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I want to go beyond the two words ’mental health’ and find out what’s going on with our kids, they are reporting record high levels of anxiety, self harm and our suicide rates are sadly at the top of the OECD index.

• We will hear from Karyn ... 25 years on the frontline of trying to reduce our awfully high rates of suicide.
• I’ll talk to Fiona a guidance counsellor in a  college where teachers are now being specifically trained in how to spot mental health issues with our kids.
• And Nina, an extraordinary 15 year old who wants to be a doctor and has already written a book.

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