Matt follows up his last chat with James about prioritizing deportations based on demographic information by asking if there are principled differences between such practices and other demographic based agendas such as gender quotas. They also touch briefly on the Green’s recent decision to run a candidate in the upcoming Northcote by-election.

This week, Matt and Alex from The Spinoff remind listeners to celebrate “Ed Balls Day” tomorrow, discuss New Zealand’s recent (high) ranking on the Press Freedom Index and the recent sentencing of Mark Meechan (aka”Nazi Pug Guy” or Count Dankula) in Scotland. Regrettably they run out of time before they can argue about free speech absolutism.

On this week’s Guest List, legendary Christchurch folk singer Adam McGrath drops by to play us some old school punk,  “Short Haired Rock and Roll” by the Terrorways followed by some new school folk rock, “Kupes Tears” from old school folk band The Warratahs. Matt also explains to Adam how the latter selection inadvertently threw his life in to turmoil.

This week, Suli highlights the importance of friends. Matt counters with the virtue of going it alone.

This week’s picks are the tracks”Amajovi Jovi” and “Party Time” from Sandy B’s 1994 album Amajovi Jovi which has recently been reissued.

This week, Jay from Sadhana brings in some Mexicali-tropo cheese core, “Cabeza Arriba!”  by The Baja Marimba Band. Only a handful of votes this week but the ones we did get certainly made their voices heard…yikes!

Alex from The Spinoff chats with Matt about some pretty dodgy health and safety issues at Tesla. They also cover today’s announcement that Jacinda Ardern will be featured in Time’s “100 Most Influential People”

This week, Suli tries to explain how stretching can actually be healthy.

Matt thinks he’s identified a not-often-talked-about problem with our legislature.

Pep’s Picks this week are the tracks”Tyrian” and “Terms”. Both come from the new album Pseudo Promitto by Chunyin, the side project of Sydney artist, Rainbow Chen.