The Department of Conversation with Pat Brittenden

After a stint at teaching at Depauw University in Indiana Iranian born, German raised, Dr Mahdis Azarmandi is now back in New Zealand teaching in the College of Education, Health and Human Development at the University of Canterbury.

University of Otago alum, Dr Azarmandi's Doctoral thesis looked at anti-racism and colonial amnesia in Aotearoa New Zealand and Spain. Her research interests are racialization and anti-racism, feminism, queer theory, colonization & decolonization.

Mahdis has recently penned an opinion piece entitled "Why solidarity, anti-racism and black lives matter". This piece was inspired by the many messages she was getting from "mainly white friends" who wanted to understand what was going on in the US at the moment

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Winner of "Comedian of the Decade" at the 2010 NZ Comedy Awards, Michèle A'Court is a stand-up comedian and writer.

Michèle has been on New Zealand TV screens since 1987 and still turns up all over the place. She writes a weekly column on social issues for "Your Weekend" and the stuff.co.nz website and is also in demand as a social commentator on television and radio. Michèle also works as a corporate MC and entertainer, an actor, voice artist and freelance feature writer.

Apologies for the abrupt ending, we had a technical difficulty that caused a drop out...still enjoy about 45 minutes with Michele

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Take some Busty Rhymes, add a swirl of literature, a dollop of sass, a slurp of Ruby Wax, a pinch of glitter, a good splosh of silliness and a nice sturdy corset and voila, you have Penny Ashton.

Poet, MC, Comedienne, Actor, Social Commentator, TV Presenter, Voice Over Artist, Improviser, Wedding Celebrant and all round show off.

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Josh Kronfeld is a TV presenter and a former rugby union footballer who represented New Zealand at international level and Otago, the Highlanders and Leicester at first-class level. During his international career, Kronfeld played in 56 games for the All Blacks, gaining 54 test caps, including appearances at both the 1995 and 1999 Rugby World Cups.

You can now see Josh regularly on The The Crowd Goes Wild telling NZ and the world's sporting stories as only the #CGW crew can.

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Nigel Yalden has spent 20 years commentating sports. He is a journalist and broadcaster...mostly on radio but occasionally on TV. Nige is passionate about presenting sport in a fun, entertaining and intelligent way.

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Marama Davidson is a New Zealand politician who entered New Zealand parliament in 2015 as a representative of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. Since 2018 Marama has also been female co-leader of the Green Party.

Marama is a friend of the show and has been on with Pat before. We're looking forward to catching up with Marama and chatting over what has been happening with the pandemic and where to from here

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Dave Rubin is live with us here and on Youtube from 12.30pm Thursday 7th May to chat about his new book and all things American politics.

David Rubin is an American political commentator, comedian, YouTube personality, and talk show host. He is the creator and host of The Rubin Report, a political talk show on BlazeTV and YouTube. His show was formerly part of The Young Turks Network

Rubin's book, 'Don't Burn this Book', is said to be "leading the fight against censorship and gives you the tools you need to think for yourself in an age when tribal outrage is the only available alternative."

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"For me to believe the earth is flat, you need to answer these questions" was the challenge set by Pat to Mark Sargent.

Growing up on South Whidbey Island, Washington, Mark Sargent started his career playing computer games professionally in Boulder Colorado. From there he spent the next 20 years training people in proprietary software. In 2014, he looked into what is no doubt the most ridiculous conspiracy ever, called "Flat Earth Theory", and through extensive research, discovered that it wasn't so laughable after all.

Early in 2015, he released a series of youtube videos titled "Flat Earth Clues", which delves into the possibility of our human civilization actually being inside a "Truman show" like enclosed system, and how it's been hidden from the public since 1956.

Mark is likely the most well known 'flat earther' in the world and he and Pat sit down to try to prove the flat earth

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John Stockdale studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford and has worked at NVIDIA, the VW ERL, VideoSurf, and Facebook. John co-founded Better, a US health-tech company that advocated for patients, and improved access to care, by getting patients paid back by their insurance for out-of-network healthcare expenses.

John is an active angel investor with a passion for sustainable business and empowering good through technology. Most recently, John helped create and launch the volunteer non-profit Helping Hands, an organization dedicated to facilitating free, safe delivery of goods for at-risk individuals during COVID-19.

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Timothy Giles a full-time facilitator who delivers programs to the commercial and community sector, providing leadership development the fields of resilience innovation culture. Tim is also a trustee of Headway - the brain injury association

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