RDU Podcast

This week’s nominee is the Australian owned supermarket chain, Countdown. Id their plastic bag ban legit, or just empty PR? Votes are down to the wire.

Matt enjoyed station manager Simon Claridge’s last appearance so much he asked him back to walk us through another couple of tracks. Simon’s picks are an acoustic version of “Rise and Fall” by Nadia Reid (2011) and “The Pharmacist” by Groeni (2018).

This week, Nick and Matt trade notes on “Frantic” and “The Rachael Divide”. They also tease the upcoming New Zealand International Film Festival.

Matt chats to one of New Zealand’s most prolific Drag Kings, Hugo Grrrl, about an event he organises and MCs that’s coming to Christchurch very shortly. Naked Girls Reading is…precisely what it sounds like.

This week, Matt and Stuart discuss the zombie slaying/dancing game, Crypt of the NecroDancer.

This week, Matt and Alex chat about the ABC’s recent ban from covering the Pacific Islands Forum in Nauru.

This week, Greens Co-Leader, Marama Davidson subs for James Shaw! Matt honors the promise he made to David Seymour to interrogate her about whether or not she take the bus to and from Wellington airport but the line of questioning is not particularly eventful. They then talk about the recently announced income caps on Kiwi Build housing and how The Greens would approach a referendum on abolishing Maori seats in parliament.

Christchurch legend Ladi 6 joins us on The Guest List to chat about her Royal Blue 3000 regional tour…and share a couple of kiwi tracks she loves of course! Ladi’s picks are “Waka” by Che Fu (1998) and “HunnyBee” by Unknown Mortal Orchestra (2018)

Martyn Pepperell’S picks this week are “Oak” and “You” from Kate NV.

This week, Matt chats to David Seymour about how many public holidays we have and whether or not leave from work should be mandated by the government at all. They also spend some time on that “Bus Tweet” from a couple weeks back.