We take a journey they never thought would ever come; unpacking guns on the podcast. The farce comes at an equally significant event that is the gun buy back. Breaking down guns to the stereotypes around them in Aotearoa; the tension was audible in the studio.

Music by @floyd.cribb

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Music by @floyd.cribb

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Replying to a voicemail about something visual took some mental gymnastics for us to decode, but we return the call by unpacking the wires behind Aotearoa's film industry. The money the tourism industry made off Lord of the Rings was monumental, but at what cost?

Art by @MountyMade

Music by @floyd.cribb

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Replying to the latest voicemail, Thabi and Kii look at the often talked about, but misunderstood Suffrage movement. Taking a look at international perspectives, they dissect the narratives surrounding the movement, and the legacy of Kate Sheppard. 

Art by @MountyMade

Music by @floyd.cribb

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To understand where we are now, we must look at how we begun. Following up on our latest voicemail, Thabi and Kii travel back to 1985 to look on an event that the older generation of New Zealanders feel pride in. Our clean green identity didn't begin with this, but it sure did peak. Make sure to listen to the end of the episode to find out what's next on the Unpack list!

Art by @MountyMade

Music by @floyd.cribb

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Responding to a voicemail from a friend of the show 'Du’Plessis Kirifi', no matter how you feel about the boys in the black jersey, New Zealanders are overtly proud of the All Blacks. Thabi and Kii dive into exactly how keen we are to support them and if there's anything wrong with being too over the top in our support.

Art by @MountyMade

Music by @floyd.cribb

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Our fourth season aims higher than ever, so Thabi and Kii sat down in the studio after analysing over 15 months of news and articles to give you the starter. Every meal has its entree, and the podcast seasons are no different. Season Four has been fully funded by the Patreon community and powered by Coalesce.

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Karangahape full ingoa is Te Karanga a Hape - The Calling Place of Hape. Hape was a rangatira back in the rā, and his name literally means “clubbed foot” or “left behind.” When planning to pull up in Aotearoa from Hawaiki (around 1350 AD ish), everyone came together and decided to prioritise younger and physically fit people for their long and hard voyage. Hape was left behind by the Tainui waka because of his clubbed foot, but Tangaroa came to his aid, and sent a taniwha, Kaiwhare, to bring him here. When Hape arrived, he and Kaiwhare made their way into the Manukau Harbour (where Kaiwhare stayed) and Hape saw a strangely flat mountain (Ihumaatao) where he waited for the Tainui waka to arrive, calling out to them - the calling place of Hape!

The road that we know as K Road has a history of being left behind. With gentrification and crime in the top headlines, what do we know about K Road if we only looked on the internet?

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We often look at cultural appropriation in the contexts of fashion, art and spirituality, where the consequences are not serious or life threatening. We as a country are yet to understand the line in using Te Ao Maori, and that becomes evident once looking at the comments. At what point does it become go from appreciating to appropriating?

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What happened to KimDotCom?

In this episode, we discuss his personal feud with the National Party and how he showed the New Zealand public how easy it was to disrupt the political system with a) money, b) a vendetta. We then continue with an iconic moment in New Zealand history where a person who was never claiming to be the smallest bit New Zealander showed how our ties to the United States could deteriorate what we love. And finally, we touch on the rise of David Seymour and the fall of Hone Harawira and how they were all down to his moment in the limelight.

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