Matt decides to share a brief extract from Sam Harris’ Waking Up Podcast that caught his attention, relaying the experience of of smoking toad venom.

Matt chats with The Miltones vocalist, Milly about the bands new single, last and upcoming album and their upcoming gig at Blue Smoke in Christchurch.

This week, Rachel from Scorpio runs us through the main category winners at the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

This week for The Guest List, we have our very own station manager, Simon Claridge, in to walk us through some tracks near and dear to the heart of RDU. Simon picks a moving performance of “Gutter Black” by Hello Sailor’s Harry Lyon, recorded live at RDU. The second pick is a recent, rocking cut, “Tunnel Vision” by Brian Tamaki and the Kool Aid Kids, featuring our sound engineer and Observatory host, Jamie Stratton.

This week, Jay nominates “Go West” by The Village People. Listeners decide it swims because…how could they not!?

This week’s chat with Green Party Co-Leader, James Shaw, is all about weed and referendums.

This week, Alex comes in, hat in hand, over his dismissal of legalisation of recreational marijuana use. Also, you might want to brace for some annoying emails.

After playing a relevant George Carlin clip, Matt chats to David about the flack he caught this week relating to his comments about potential public housing development in Epsom.

This week, Martyn’s picks are “Salaam” and “High Roller” from Kamaal Williams’ new album, The Return.

This week, Suli tries to convince us that pushing yourself to the point of injury/death is somehow good for you.