PostingCast

PostingCast #22: Honouring Te Tiriti w/ Dr Dani

This week I asked the wonderful Dr Dani @noflightfairy.bsky.com to talk about their PhD Thesis "Settlers against colonialism? Education, organising and the Tiriti workers' movement" which you can find here: https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/thesis/Settlers_against_colonialism_Education_organising_and_the_Tiriti_workers_movement/28039256?file=51224948
We discuss the history of the Tiriti workers movement, and how the Treaty Principles Bill and Regulatory Standards Bill both threaten Te Tiriti - but the response has activated and energised a broad swathe of Aotearoa society.
Where does that go? What's next for the 300,000+ TPB submitters. 
We also discuss the future, and how Te Paati Māori and the Greens are setting out a vision of both a more Tiriti honouring Aotearoa, but also one which asks the question, "What if things could be better? What if we could make them better?
 
Our theme music this season is Virginia Liston's "Evil Minded Blues", recorded 99 years ago in Chicago. 
No A.I was used in the production of this episode.
 
 

PostingCast #21: Creativity, Art and Free Speech

I'm joined by Hugh Dingwall of the mighty Manawatu People's Radio to discuss art, creativity and free speech. He's the host of the excellent Reserved Recommendations show.
This one's a free-wheeler where we talk about Iain Banks, difficult movies, how interpretation of art is contextual. There's a lot about Zardoz, and more about how important it is to create, and share, and be ready for the thing you didn't expect to go off like a bottle rocket.
 

PostingCast #20: A Moral Panic

This week it's just me, talking to you.
This month has seen a moral panic be stoked by nefarious right-wing forces, intent on taking down members of the Green Party.
In this episode, I put all the pieces together. A right-wing echo chamber, the Deputy Prime Minister, a moral panic, and what happens next and what to do next.
It's shorter than usual, and there's only one joke - at the end - but it was important to have this one out there.
Our theme music this season is Virginia Liston's "Evil Minded Blues", recorded 99 years ago in Chicago. 
No A.I was used in the production of this episode.
 

PostingCast #19: Season Two Premiere - So, it's barbarism then?

I'm joined by Kyle, Jennifer and Stephanie to discuss what the hell has happened in the two years since we went off-air. In short, not a lot of good stuff - a lot of bad stuff.
We take the usual dismal view of the United States, look to the absolute state of the NZ Government and the rising dirty politics tactics against the left as a response, but we do try to finish on a positive note - because there's a lot left to fight for!
You can find Kyle's media platform here: https://www.1of200.nz/
You can find Jen's writing here: https://jenniferkshields.nz/
You can find Stephanie's YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@bootstheory
 
Roko's Basilisk Slut Era, mentioned in the episode, is here: https://maddisonstoff.neocities.org/roko
Our theme music this season is Virginia Liston's "Evil Minded Blues", recorded 99 years ago in Chicago. 
No A.I was used in the production of this episode.
 

PostingCast #6: For Zoom The Bell Tolls

We don't talk a lot on this one. Instead, we invited Zoomer correspondents Artemis, August and Jack to talk about being a Zoomer, the pandemic, social-media, representation, that gay shit and what it's like being a Zoomer (and what Millennials, Gen X and Boomers gets wrong about zoomers, it's a lot)
 
This is the best podcast we've done. You should listen to it.

PostingCast #18: Education Fundamental(ist)s w/ Adam, Hannah and Nick

This week I asked Adam, Hannah and Nick on to talk about what safeguarding actually looks like in schools, what the Christian and anti-trans right wing are saying about the Relationships and Sexuality Curriculum guidance, and how teachers are responding to gross accusations and conspiracies about them.
Transcript of the show available here: https://postingdad.medium.com/postingcast-18-transcript-ba22ad82a7e8

PostingCast #17: Free (Energy) Nelson Mandela w/ Stephanie and Francisco

A movie episode! I brought prospective parliamentary candidates for the NZ Greens Steph Rodgers and Fran Hernandez on, and we watched Keanu Reeves flick Chain Reaction from 1996. It's about the discovery of free energy (Yay!) and how the CIA are bad (Yay!) but also the FBI are good (Huh?) and, yeah, overall there are some baffling choices in this film. Brian Cox is in it too, boy does he have an accent.

PostingCast #16: About Last Weekend w/ Artie, Cassie, Fin and Hannah

Kellie-Jane Keen-Minshull came to Aotearoa and had a BAD TIME. John has asked three trans folks and a cis woman to talk about attending the protest in Tamaki-makau-rau, the trans rights rally in Pōneke and Ōtautahi, and their views on this issue. These voices are not often heard in NZ media, so we'll do it instead.
 
Our theme music is New Opportunities by Motion Productions.
 
 

PostingCast #15: The Crimes Of Screenwriting w/ Cass and Charlie

We had Cassie and Charlie on a month or so ago and promised we'd get them back for a fun episode. So, we fucked that up. We all watched Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes Of Grindelwald and had a Bad Time watching a Bad Movie from a Bad Writer. You want a cruel and brutally awful world? Yeah? With magic? Yeah! How about some children being murdered. Cool. This movie is for you. We hated it.

PostingCast #13: Left Media w/ Kyle Church

We got 1 of 200's Kyle Church on to talk about the media in Aotearoa, and the role that independent left wing media has in providing a breadth of ideas, especially at a time when it seems like the horizons are somewhat narrowed by what is and isn't deemed politically viable. We chat some shit about other stuff too.