The Department of Conversation with Pat Brittenden

Former Punk Rock band member, now Reverend, Spanky Moore joins us to chat about how relevant Easter is to Western society in 2022.

Mark Dye has been on the New Zealand media scene since he was 18. He's worked on as a radio host on The Edge, ZM and on Newstalk ZB with co-host Kerre McIver.

Outside of the media, Mark is an entrepreneur. He's Co-Founder/CEO of medicinal cannabis company NUBU - the country's largest cannabis distributor and the first to legally sell cannabis in New Zealand.

In 2022 Mark joins the Tova breakfast show on Today FM as breakfast co-host.

Investigative journalist Paula Penfold joins us to talk about her latest documentary, Disordered.

Thomas is one of an estimated 3,000 New Zealand babies born every year with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. His story is told in Stuff Circuit's latest documentary Disordered - which explores Aotearoa's shameful incidence of FASD

Petra Bagust is a New Zealand television presenter, perhaps best known for her role as co-presenter of TVNZ's morning show Breakfast. Petra and Pat go way back most famously as co-hosts on Newstalb ZB's Sunday Sunday show.

Bruce Pilbrow has been either the CEO, board member or marketing manager of several large NZ companies and organizations including Yellow, World Vision, Zeal, Kids 4 Kids, The Parenting Place, Canteen and where Pat and Bruce met at the Rhema Media Group.

Bruce is the current CEO of the Spirit of Adventure Trust, a speaker and a transformer.

Heather Simpson is a former antivax mother who is on a journey back to evidence-based medicine. Heather was popular in the antivax community as the influencer mom who dressed as measles for Halloween, the least scary thing she could think of

Katherine Mangu-Ward is editor in chief of Reason magazine.

She has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Slate and is also a frequent commentator on radio and TV networks NPR, CNBC, C-SPAN, Fox Business, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC.

Katherine is also the co-host of the Libertarian podcast The Reason Roundtable.

Byron Clark is a video essayist whose work focuses on New Zealand's far-right and conspiracy theory scene talks vaccines and the Wellington protest

After an award-winning start in the world of standup comedy, Dave Wiggins stepped away for personal and health reasons. Recently Dave has be drawn back to the stage and has begun a comedy business that aims to bring comedy to the Whanganui region.

Restarting a profession that requires an audience and a business that needs patrons in a global pandemic might seem like a bad joke, but Dave and his business partner are now running 'Hello Comedy' and about to start their first event with comedian Nick Rado.

Dr Steven Novella is a neurologist, an author, part of the sceptic community, a podcast host and assistant professor at Yale University School of Medicine. Recently Dr Novella wrote on his Neurologica blog a post entitled "Joe Rogan and the Media Algorithm" talking about how algorithms are driving information with no "journalistic filter" and the dangers of that.