Blockbuster Breakdown is a high-energy movie podcast hosted by Liam Crowley. The show follows recent movie news, including segments such as actor/actress of the week and what to see.
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Has the Percy Jackson series been slept on by society? Join Mike Schubert as he journeys through the Riordanverse for the first time with the help of longtime PJO fans to cover the plot, take stabs at what happens next, and nerd out over the Greek mythology throughout. Whether you're looking for an excuse to finally read these books, or want to re-read an old favorite with a digital book club, grab your blue chocolate chip cookies and listen along. New episodes release on Mondays wherever yo ...
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Tune in every Tuesday to join host Adam Barnard for engaging conversation, notable guests, pro wrestling news, and even a game of Dungeons and Dragons or two.
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A magazine programme with long-form, in-depth feature interviews on current affairs, science, modern life, history, the arts and more. Hosted by Susie Ferguson.
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135 | The Lost Hero Ch. 19–20 w/ Liam Crowley
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Liam T. Crowley of Comicbook is back on TNO, this time to cover some book chapters, specifically the icy confrontation in The Lost Hero! Topics include: a spandex-centric life, birds of prey, everyday charmspeak, The Berenstain Bears, travel hair product, too much sauce, L"Equippe, accents, Three Body Problem, Fliptide, trademarks, Carnival, Devil …
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Larry Killip: an under-the-radar icon of NZ music history
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Lynfield-based Larry Killip describes himself as "possibly the most famous person that you have never heard of". With a musical career stretching back to the mid-60s, Killip's first band The Zarks was formed with a few high school buddies. Since then he's continued to write and perform in various iterations, but the work most people would be famili…
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The case of billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein shocked and captured the attention of the world. Ghislaine Maxwell is the British socialite jailed for procuring young girls for Epstein. Her trial was meticulously covered by journalist and legal affairs correspondent Lucia Osborne-Crowley, one of only four reporters allowed into the courtroom eve…
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How to be a Citizen - breaking rules to fix them
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Societies have rules to stop them from descending into chaos - at least that's what Constitutional scholar Cindy Skach used to believe. Her career was spent advising governments and writing constitutions to help fix society in some of the most fractured, war-torn corners of the world. That was until 2009, when she survived a missile attack while in…
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Award-winning journalist Åsne Seierstad, studied life in Afghanistan before and after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, documenting it in her book The Bookseller of Kabul. Twenty years later, with the Taliban back in power, Seierstad shares the story of her return to Afghanistan to explore life under the current regime through three individuals and …
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Liam Dann: are interest rates falling fast enough to save small businesses?
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New Zealand Herald business editor-at-large Liam Dann says interest rates are picked to fall, but before then small and medium businesses will continue to feel the pinch.
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Kevin Day: football didn't come home, again
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British writer, comedian and football fan Kevin Day joins Colin to talk about the reaction in England of football not coming home. Almost thirty years ago the song Three Lions took off. Its refrain "football's coming home" was been sung lustily by fans ever since - only to come up short time and again.…
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Dr Moriba Jah: the increasing threat of space junk
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Renowned space environmentalist and astrodynamicist specialising in space object detection and identification, Dr Moriba Jah believes it's only a matter of time before someone is killed by falling space debris. Currently there are an estimated 27,000 objects bigger than a softball hurtling around the Earth's orbit, not to mention the millions of sm…
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New Zealand's health system was also affected last night. RNZ understands an integral part of the medical system was down.
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The IT company at the centre of this storm, Crowdstrike, has their headquarters in Austin, Texas. RNZ correspondent Toni Waterman is outside Crowdstrike's headquarters.
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Acting PM David Seymour: outage's effect on government systems
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The acting Prime Minister, David Seymour, has been briefed by officials throughout the evening on the outage, with initial concerns over government systems in particular.
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As retailers start to open this morning we'll get a better idea of any lasting impacts of the Crowdstrike outage. Carolyn Young is the Chief Executive of Retail NZ
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The IT outage affected supermarkets around the country yesterday. Some Woolworth stores shut as people were unable to buy things at checkouts or order items online. Woolworths NZ says all its stores have reopened this morning but some checkouts will still be affected. Jason Stockwill is Woolworths New Zealand's director of stores.…
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The cybersecurity company was founded in 2011, with goals to safeguard the world's largest companies and their hardware from cyber threats. The company specialises in endpoint security protection. Basically, it stops malicious software or files from infiltrating computer networks. It also protects the servers companies store data on, which is incre…
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136 | The Lost Hero Ch. 21–22 w/ Phoebe Corde & Emily Garber
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The Monster Donut duo is back on The Newest Olympian, this time making their Heroes of Olympus debut to cover some dream-filled Piper chapters! Topics include: DeviantArt, Tumblr, making decisions, emails, French: a vibe, action figures, Latin choices, direct feedback, The Lone Ranger, the 2010s, Denmark, Piper Girls, AI, Greek pronunciations, Sutr…
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How to raise a good dog: Tips from the stars of The Dog House NZ
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Helen and Gavin Cook, who run an animal rescue centre north of Auckland, are the stars of TVNZ's hit show The Dog House NZ. In the new book Good Dogs, the English-born couple share advice from their 15 years of canine fostering and rescue.
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Prof Ian Hickie: busting the myths around depression
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Professor Ian Hickie is a psychiatrist and co-director of health and policy at the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Centre. As one of Australia's leading authorities on mental health, Professor Hickie says that disinformation can risk putting people with clinical depression off using potentially successful treatments. One of the most damaging …
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Kate De Goldi is one of New Zealand's most celebrated authors, an Arts Foundation Laureate, and a voracious reader. She joins Bryan to share three books she's loved; Kids Run the Show by Delphine de Vigan, Cultish; the Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell; and The God of the Woods by Liz Moore.
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Prof Josephine Quinn: How the world made the West
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In her new book, How the World Made the West, historian and archaeologist Josephine Quinn shakes the foundation of familiar ideas. Her target? Western Civilisation. Professor Quinn, who teaches ancient history at the University of Oxford, argues that the established paradigm of the 'West' being built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Ro…
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The Dark Destroyer has been quizzing his way around New Zealand raising money for charity as he goes. He's also managed to squeeze in a couple of All Blacks games. The star of the Chase, Shaun Wallace, joins Bryan Crump to answer some gnarly questions, talk about rugby, what draws him back to NZ and what it's like to be a celebrity quizzer.…
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The developer of the world's smallest brain implant, Kitea Health, says it not only alerts parents when pressure is building in their child's brain, but will take the pressure off families living in constant fear of a serious medical event. Clinical trials have started in 20 people with hydrocephalus in Auckland. Kitea Health CEO Dr Simon Malpas te…
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Susie Ferguson's listener feedback for saturday morning 6 July 2024
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Danyl McLauchlan: Silicon Valley's cult of tech utopianism
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Writer Danyl McLauchlan joins Susie to tackle life's big questions, ideas, and thinkers. This week he tackles TESCREAL, the acronym you may have seen pop up online over the past few months. Coined by the computer scientist Timnit Gebru and the philosopher Emil Torres, TESCREAL stands for transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rat…
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Ken Wylie: The guilt of surviving a deadly avalanche
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Ken Wylie was guiding climbers on British Columbia's remote La Traviata peak, when an avalanche came crashing down, burying him and 12 others. Seven people died that day in January 2003, but Ken survived. The book he wrote about the experience, Buried, is a reflection of the mistakes and the motivations that contributed to the tragedy, how it influ…
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Antonia Murphy: The ethical pimp who inspired Madam
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In 2016 Antonia Murphy started a feminist escort agency in New Zealand called The Bach. It wasn't the career she planned, but after immigrating to New Zealand from America and raising a family her life changed when her marriage ended in divorce and she needed income quickly. After writing about her experience running an 'ethical brothel' for HuffPo…
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David Finnigan: Scenes from the Climate Era
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Australian playwright David Finnigan is bringing Scenes from the Climate Era to Auckland next month. Set in the past, present and possible future, the show snaps between the absurd, the turbulent and the vulnerable in twenty-five short scenes. The show opened last year at Sydney's Belvoir Theatre to rave reviews. Finnigan has been working with dire…
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