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The Weekly Hoon: Climate, housing, Iran and the revival of the Alliance Party
Jun 25, 2026
58m 37s
The Weekly Hoon: Calling for a new RONS' suspension; Golden Mile decision; Religion's role in the Ukraine war;
Jun 18, 2026
59m 50s
The Weekly Hoon: An amazing SpaceX IPO; NZ's $6.5b emissions credits bill; Auckland's de-intensification & Labour's fare cap policy
Jun 11, 2026
1h 01m 58s
Protest growing against Govt's disability cost-cutting bill
Jun 9, 2026
15m 12s
Accepting 57,000 homeless mums with 33,000 homeless kids 'tells us who we are as a society'
Jun 8, 2026
18m 36s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/25/26 | ![]() The Weekly Hoon: Climate, housing, Iran and the revival of the Alliance Party | 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 guest Robert Patman from Dunedin about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics.This edition also included discussions with special guests:* Author Jonathan Lyons, PhD, who publishes the Signal to Noise: History. Philosophy. Commentary. substack, about the history of Iran; and,* Alliance Party Leader Victor Billot on the party’s history, re-registration and policies.This week:* Bernard and Peter talked about the climate in Europe, social housing policy in New Zealand.* Then Bernard and Peter talked with Robert and Jonathan about the Iran conflict.* Bernard and Peter then talked with Victor about the Alliance Party.* Victor read a poem written especially for The Hoon at the end. The skateboarding dog story was about Larry the Cat from 10 Downing Street, who has outlived six British Prime Ministers.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. Peter Bale will be back next week.The Hoon won the silver award for best current affairs podcast in last year’s New Zealand Podcast awards. (This is a sampler for all free subscribers and anyone else who stumbles on it. Thanks to the support of paying subscribers here, we’re able to spread my public interest journalism here about housing affordability, climate change and poverty reduction other public venues. Join the community supporting and contributing to this work with your ideas, feedback and comments, and by subscribing in full. Remember, all students and teachers who sign up for the free version with their .ac.nz and .school.nz email accounts are automatically upgraded to the paid version for free. Ngā mihi nui.Bernard This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe | 58m 37s | ||||||
| 6/18/26 | ![]() The Weekly Hoon: Calling for a new RONS' suspension; Golden Mile decision; Religion's role in the Ukraine war; | 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 from Wellington and Robert Patman from Dunedin about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics.This edition also included discussions with special guests:* Transport analyst Connor Sharp talking about Greater Auckland’s call for the Te Hana to Warkworth section of the Northland RONS to be rescoped; and,* Public Theologian and Civic Technologist Brittany C Farbo on the role of religion in the Ukraine War and Russia’s attacks on churches in Ukraine.This week:* Bernard, Peter and Cathrine talked about Wellington’s Golden Mile decision and South Dunedin’s attempts to deal with climate retreat.* Then Bernard and Peter talked with Robert about the Iran conflict MOU.* Bernard and Peter then talked with Britt about Ukraine.* They finished with a chat with Connor about the RONS and transport policy.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. Peter Bale will be back next week.The Hoon won the silver award for best current affairs podcast in last year’s New Zealand Podcast awards. (This is a sampler for all free subscribers and anyone else who stumbles on it. Thanks to the support of paying subscribers here, we’re able to spread my public interest journalism here about housing affordability, climate change and poverty reduction other public venues. Join the community supporting and contributing to this work with your ideas, feedback and comments, and by subscribing in full. Remember, all students and teachers who sign up for the free version with their .ac.nz and .school.nz email accounts are automatically upgraded to the paid version for free. Ngā mihi nui.Bernard This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe | 59m 50s | ||||||
| 6/11/26 | ![]() The Weekly Hoon: An amazing SpaceX IPO; NZ's $6.5b emissions credits bill; Auckland's de-intensification & Labour's fare cap policy✨ | SpaceX IPOemissions credits+5 | Cathrine DyerPeter Griffin+1 | SpaceXRocketLab+11 | — | SpaceXemissions credits+8 | — | 1h 01m 58s | |
| 6/9/26 | ![]() Protest growing against Govt's disability cost-cutting bill✨ | disability rightsgovernment policy+5 | Victoria Coleman | Government | New Zealand | disability supportcost-cutting bill+6 | — | 15m 12s | |
| 6/8/26 | ![]() Accepting 57,000 homeless mums with 33,000 homeless kids 'tells us who we are as a society'✨ | homelessnesschildren+4 | Victoria Crockford | Coalition to End Women’s Homelessness | AucklandNorthland+1 | homelessnesschildren+5 | — | 18m 36s | |
| 6/4/26 | ![]() The Weekly Hoon: Johan Rockstrom's 'saturation point'; Data centre footprints; Trump vs Netanyahu; China vs four NZ MPs; Exports of forced labour✨ | geopoliticseconomy+5 | Cathrine DyerRobert Patman+1 | RNZUN+2 | ChinaTaiwan+1 | Johan Rockstromsaturation point+7 | — | 58m 24s | |
| 5/28/26 | ![]() The Weekly Hoon: Budget 2026, a climate scandal, Saudi Arabia & Iran & disinformation flooding NZ's political debates✨ | Budget 2026climate change+3 | Cathrine DyerRobert Patman+2 | Z EnergyFonterra+1 | New ZealandIran+1 | Budget 2026climate scandal+5 | — | 56m 52s | |
| 5/21/26 | ![]() The Weekly Hoon: Govt housing & job cuts; Iran vs Trump; Competition & banking✨ | government housing cutsjob cuts+5 | Cathrine DyerRobert Patman+2 | Monopoly Watch NZ | WellingtonDunedin+1 | housing cutsjob cuts+5 | — | 58m 00s | |
| 5/14/26 | ![]() The Weekly Hoon: Trump in China & posting late at night; Luxon on migration & more climate laws rewritten✨ | geopoliticseconomy+4 | Cathrine DyerRobert Patman+1 | Fonterra | WellingtonDunedin+1 | TrumpChina+6 | — | 59m 21s | |
| 5/7/26 | ![]() The Weekly Hoon: The fuel & climate crises, plus deliberative democracy✨ | fuel crisisclimate crisis+4 | Cathrine DyerRobert Patman+1 | newDemocracy Foundation | WellingtonQueenstown+3 | fuel crisisclimate change+5 | — | 58m 42s | |
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| 4/30/26 | ![]() The Weekly Hoon: The Middle East fuel crisis & more✨ | Middle East conflictfuel crisis+3 | Cathrine DyerRobert Patman+1 | Koi Tū (Centre for Informed Futures)Earth Sciences NZ+2 | — | Middle Eastfuel crisis+5 | — | 55m 54s | |
| 4/8/26 | ![]() Mini-Hoon with Bernard Hickey and Anna Fifield✨ | newscommentary+1 | Anna Fifield | — | — | HoonBernard Hickey+3 | — | 26m 45s | |
| 4/2/26 | ![]() Mini-Hoon Live with Bernard Hickey, Catherine Knight & Mike Joy on the Reality of Everything & Food✨ | climate changefood security+4 | Catherine KnightMike Joy | Victoria University of WellingtonSubstack+1 | — | symposiumclimate change+5 | — | 29m 08s | |
| 3/27/26 | ![]() The Weekly Hoon: The escalating Middle East fuel crisis✨ | Middle East fuel crisisgeopolitics+5 | Cathrine DyerRoger Dennis | WMO | New ZealandIran | Middle Eastfuel crisis+5 | — | 59m 12s | |
| 3/19/26 | ![]() The Weekly Hoon: The Middle East fuel crisis & how NZ is handling it✨ | Middle East fuel crisisgeopolitics+5 | Cathrine DyerDileepa Fonseka | BusinessDesk | IranNew Zealand | fuel crisisIran war+5 | — | 54m 55s | |
| 3/18/26 | ![]() A Hoon on The Reality of Everything Symposium, interconnected crises & Climate Change✨ | climate changeinterconnected crises+4 | Cathrine DyerJames Renwick+1 | Victoria University of WellingtonUppsala University+1 | — | climate sciencesystemic changes+3 | — | 32m 51s | |
| 3/12/26 | ![]() The Weekly Hoon: Middle East fuel crisis; accelerating climate warming & NZ's health system problems✨ | Middle East fuel crisisclimate change+4 | Cathrine DyerRobert Patman+1 | The HoonMarsden Point+1 | New Zealand | Middle Eastfuel crisis+5 | — | 58m 35s | |
| 3/12/26 | ![]() A Mini-Hoon with Chloe Swarbrick about fossil fuels, housing and fiscal strategy | I spoke with Green Co-Leader Chloe Swarbrick last night in a Substack Live Video for over 150 subscribers about the urgent need to decarbonise & provide housing, along with challenging the bipartisan assumptions about the size of Government and Government debt to GDP — the ‘30-30’ rule. We also talked about migration policy and population growth.The full interview is above for all.Chapters00:00 Introduction and Context Setting07:22 Fuel Crisis and Government Response10:43 Housing Crisis and Emergency Solutions13:20 Economic Policy and the 30-30 Rule19:19 Debt Management and Economic Stability24:15 Electrifying the Economy and Climate Change27:28 Population Growth and Migration PolicyCheersBernard This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe | 23m 11s | ||||||
| 3/5/26 | ![]() The Weekly Hoon: Middle East in crisis; NZ economy stagnant; Peters at odds with Luxon | The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer and Robert Patman about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics here, along with special guest historian and author Jonathan Lyons.This week:* Bernard and Peter began with a discussion about deaths of a record 129 journalists reported in 2025 by the Committee to Protect Journalists, mostly in Gaza, and the risks of it worsening in an extended war in the Middle East.* Bernard and Peter talked about New Zealand’s lack of resilience to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz for both diesel and fertiliser.* Bernard, Peter and Cathrine talked about the impending dropping of clean car standards and the connections between war and climate change.* Bernard, Peter, Robert and Jonathan talked about the implications from the widening war in the Middle East, including Israel’s role and Iran’s history.Jonathan has written these books on Iran: The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization, and, Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism.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. (This is a sampler for all free subscribers and anyone else who stumbles on it. Thanks to the support of paying subscribers here, we’re able to spread my public interest journalism here about housing affordability, climate change and poverty reduction other public venues. Join the community supporting and contributing to this work with your ideas, feedback and comments, and by subscribing in full. Remember, all students and teachers who sign up for the free version with their .ac.nz and .school.nz email accounts are automatically upgraded to the paid version for free. Also, here’s a couple of special offers: $3/month or $30/year for under 30s & $6.50/month or $65/year for over 65s who rent.)Ngā mihi nui.Bernard This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe | 51m 17s | ||||||
| 3/3/26 | ![]() A Hoon on The Reality of Everything Symposium, interconnected crises & Public Health | This week I hosted a ‘Hoon’ on Substack Live previewing The Reality of Everything symposium to be held at Victoria University of Wellington on June 26, which will examine the interconnected crises of climate change, energy, water & food constraints, economic instability & public health.I was joined by regular Hoon guest Cathrine Dyer, substacker and symposium facilitator Catherine Knight, conference speaker and epidemiologist Professor Alistair Woodward from the University of Auckland, and fellow public health specialist Associate Professor Caroline Shaw from the University of Otago.We started by talking about the need for the Symposium and referring to the National Emergency Briefing held in the UK last year, including an address by Professor Hugh Montgomery, a Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London. The video of his address is below via Youtube.We talked about the intersection of public health and climate change, emphasizing the urgent need for a comprehensive approach to public health in the face of climate, resource and economic crises. We talked about tobacco control as a precedent for health policy, the social determinants of health, and the benefits of e-bikes. The conversation concludes with recommendations for policymakers to prioritize health and well-being in climate action.Here’s Catherine’s substack post announcing the conference.And a follow-up post with the latest details.Here’s the chapters in the video above:00:00 Introduction to the Reality of Everything Symposium02:43 Understanding the Interconnected Crises05:36 Climate Change and Health Risks07:18 Tobacco Control as a Model for Climate Action11:41 Social Determinants of Health and Climate Change15:29 Transport, Health, and Climate Change Solutions18:10 Rethinking Emergencies and Public Health19:05 Transport Policies and Health Implications21:20 Access Over Infrastructure: A New Perspective22:19 The Hidden Health Costs of Transport24:23 E-Bikes: A Healthier Alternative25:34 Policy Solutions for Health and Climate Change29:18 Public Health as Climate Action31:48The Economic Case for Climate ActionThank you Susan St John, Mike Joy, Paul Singh, Melanie, Brian Rathbone, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe | 33m 50s | ||||||
| 2/27/26 | ![]() A Mini-Hoon with Ben Reid on Citrini's report about AI that unnerved global stocks | This week a speculative post on Substack by Citrini about ever-faster AI tools creating a self-reinforcing doom loop of fewer jobs & lower wages for humans -- while AI owners win big -- shook global stocks. A link to the post is below.So I decided to have a Substack Live with Ben Reid, who writes about tech and AI for Memia. The resulting chat is above.Thank you James Wilkes, Nicola Francis, Summerhaze, David, Elaine, and many others for tuning into my live video with Ben Reid! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe | 27m 33s | ||||||
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