After the Surf Report, Matt quizzes Jay on surf board design and Jay brings in “Gonna Leave” by Luis and the Wildfires for this week’s Sink or Swim.

This week, Matt continues to grill Barrister, Tim Mackenzie, on smoking laws and Tim breaks down when you should and should not be worried about the cops listening in on you.

Matt chats to Alex about Gatherings celebrating their one year anniversary this weekend, salad tips and carrot dawgs.

This week, Cassie joins us to review “In the Days of Rain”, by Rebecca Stott. The Award winning biography recounts the author’s experience growing up in a separatist fundamentalist Christian cult, The Exclusive Brethren.

Nick and Matt swap notes on Citizen Ruth and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Nick also has some BIG words of praise for P T Anderson’s latest, “Phantom Thread”, and Daniel Day Lewis’ performance therein.

James Shaw is back! This week, he talks to Matt about sexual orientation and gender identity currently not being included in census data, Winston Peters’ job so far and artfully dodges Matt’s attempts to get him to show his hand re a preferred co-leader candidate.

Lawrence Arabia checks in to give one final push for his Kickstarter album project, He and Matt then struggle through some technical issues to make the pitch!

Last chance to chip in here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lawrencearabia/lawrence-arabias-2018-singles-club

In This week’s Sink or Swim, Jay nominates “Almost There” from Thee Vicars and the kids love it! Matt also talks to Jay about the merits of “stand up surfing”

Matt talks to Rowan from The Glass Vaults about the bands evolving musical style and their upcoming appearance at the 2018 Nostalgia Festival.

This week, Matt talks to Dan about Jeremy Well’s first week on Seven Sharp, Bob Jones’ cutting satire, Peter Thiel and much, much more!