The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night features co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking about the week’s news with regular and special guests, including:

Robert Patman on the week in geopolitics, including the latest from Donald Trump over Gaza and Ukraine.

Health expert and author David Galler on health funding cuts, Health NZ’s restructures and the dangers of privatisation.

The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded on Thursday night during a live webinar for over 200 paying subscribers and was produced and edited by Simon Josey.

The video above was added after the email was sent to all subscribers.

The Hoon won the silver award for best current affairs podcast in this year’s New Zealand Podcast awards.

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Ngā mihi nui.

Bernard

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