The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer and Robert Patman and a special guest about the economy, politics, geopolitics and climate change.

This week’s special guest was Drive Electric Chair Kirsten Corson.

This week:

* Bernard and Peter talked about Peter’s work on a CEO profile special series of articles for BusinessDesk-$, including that Brian Roche’s favourite book was by Jo Nesbo.

* Bernard, Peter and Cathrine talked about the Government’s decision this week to slash penalties for importing high emissions vehicles to save buyers of double-cab utes hundreds of dollars.

* Peter and Robert talked about Donald Trump’s attacks on the rules of international law, referring to this article by Philippe Sands in The Guardian. They also talked about the latest secret peace deal for Ukraine agreed between the United States and Russia, but which didn’t include Ukraine or Europe.

* Bernard and Kirsten talked about the state of climate policy in the wake of the shredding of the clean car discount scheme.

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

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Ngā mihi nui.

Bernard

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