The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics.
It included regular guest Cathrine Dyer, including a discussion about this article she wrote for Newsroom.
Bernard’s three things of note this week were:
1. Starship’s cancer treatment closure is a big election story.
2. As is a looming electricity price shock from lines charges.
3. Quite possibly, we’ll see a rate hike on October 28 and more petrol price hikes in the last week of the campaign.
Peter’s three things to note this week were:
1. Trump goes lower with himself in the video with tiger that killed the chap in the UK, plus bombastic videos suggesting we may be back in conflict with Iran soon. X
2. Russia and hybrid war tactics. Wiki
3. Risks of Hezbollah re-arming and going after rivals in the Lebanon government.
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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