Martin Gurri, retired CIA analyst, writer and author of “The Revolt of the Public”. This book has been recognised as prophetic by critics of all political persuasions. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to a podcast before? Check out our simple how-to guide. Listen here on iHeartRadio Leighton Smith's podcast also available on iTunes:To subscribe via iTunes click here See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jan 25, 2022•1 hr 4 min
With a list of qualifications too long to include, Koonin served as Undersecretary for Science at the U.S. Dept of Energy, under President Obama. Professor of theoretical physics at Caltech, 200+ peer-reviewed papers in the fields of physics and astrophysics, scientific computation, energy technology and climate science (not that I believe peer-review counts for much any more). But those achievements counted for little when he published “Unsettled, what climate science tells us, what it doesn’t,...
Jan 18, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Des Gorman, Professor of Medicine at Auckland University. He was Head of the School of Medicine from 2005-2010. We had a wide ranging discussion on multiple matters; science, philosophy, education, intelligence, the shortcomings of governance and what binds us together. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to a podcast before? Check out our simple how-to guide. Listen here on iHeartRadio Leighton Smith's podcast also available on iTunes:To subscribe via...
Jan 11, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Barry Brownstein was a find in 2021. Author of “the Inner-Work of Leadership” and Professor of Economics and Leadership, Barry proved himself worthy of a long form interview. He was amazed and impressed with the response his podcast drew. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to a podcast before? Check out our simple how-to guide. Listen here on iHeartRadio Leighton Smith's podcast also available on iTunes:To subscribe via iTunes click here See omnystudi...
Jan 04, 2022•1 hr
Rodney Hide, ex-politician, independent thinker and the only scientifically qualified member of parliament in his day, is always a great conversationalist. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to a podcast before? Check out our simple how-to guide. Listen here on iHeartRadio Leighton Smith's podcast also available on iTunes:To subscribe via iTunes click here See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Dec 28, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Martin Kulldorff, ten years Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School, has found controversy over his Covid data interpretations. Described by a Harvard colleague as a “world class superstar”, Kulldorff is not a group thinker. Just a brilliant scientist. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to a podcast before? Check out our simple how-to guide. Listen here on iHeartRadio Leighton Smith's podcast also available on iTunes:To subscribe via iTune...
Dec 21, 2021•48 min
Leighton is on summer break, so we are highlighting some of his favourite guests from 2021.First up is Paul Kengor, PHD, Professor of Political Science and bestselling author of almost twenty books on various subjects — well known for his assault on marxism. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to a podcast before? Check out our simple how-to guide. Listen here on iHeartRadio Leighton Smith's podcast also available on iTunes:To subscribe via iTunes clic...
Dec 15, 2021•57 min
On this week's podcast: We talk to Barry Soper on the politics of 2021, as only Barry can do it.We examine the role of Christianity in New Zealand and the world today, with Pastor David Waldron. He has degrees in science, geophysics and theology.And we peruse what we think is the best commentary on the dangerous path New Zealand is travelling.Happy Christmas and New Year from us both on this last podcast of year. Episode 141 is due on 3rd of February 2022! File your comments and complaints at Le...
Dec 08, 2021•1 hr 32 min
On this week's podcast: Guesting, is Australian journalist Rebecca Weisser. She relates the detail of two doctors’ experiences with the ever encroaching power of authoritarian government.We outline the thoughts of a former National MP on the new leadership.And we dip into the Mailroom with Mrs Producer. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to a podcast before? Check out our simple how-to guide. Listen here on iHeartRadio Leighton Smith's podcast also av...
Dec 01, 2021•1 hr 15 min
On this week's podcast: The very clever Jeffrey A. Tucker of Brownstone Institute returns to pick up from where we left off in podcast 129. We talk Inflation and the threat it is, the damage it can and will inflict, and what the Central Banks can do about it (essentially nothing). Tucker also revisits the Covid plague, and discloses why Bill Gates is crazy. And we visit the Mailroom, with all your correspondence. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to ...
Nov 24, 2021•1 hr 21 min
On this week's podcast: Businessman Murray Bolton took the bureaucracy to the High Court and fought for his rights, and by default for our rights. We talk government, how to succeed if you are young, the Bill of Rights and more.We have a word with Muriel Newman from NZCPR. She has written a letter to the Prime Minister outlining why “we” don't love her anymore.And Ewen McQueen, author of “One Sun in the Sky: the Untold Story of Sovereignty and the Treaty of Waitangi”, on why New Zealand is in a ...
Nov 17, 2021•1 hr 32 min
On this week's podcast: Patrick Basham, Director of the Democracy Institute, has written the lead article in "Chronicles, A Magazine of American Culture” about the 2020 American election. We discuss the empirical evidence and historical data which has lead to an inescapable conclusion about the election.Not a conspiracy theory but solid analysis.Then, a picture of society 40 years from now, following decades of culture wars. Agenda 2060, The Future as it happens is described as “a work of politi...
Nov 10, 2021•1 hr 45 min
On this week's podcast: For 28 years Martin Gurri was an analyst for the CIA. He specialised in foreign news media. He departed in 2010, just before the world changed in 2011. His book, “The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority" was published in 2018. It was a riveting discussion. We explore your comments in The Mailroom. And we comment on Bitcoin and Peter Thiel’s speech on “Centralised Information” and the Ministry of Truth. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb....
Nov 03, 2021•1 hr 29 min
On this week's podcast: Nick Cater, Executive Director of the Menzies Research Centre and columnist for The Australian, discusses Cop 26 and covid, Australian politics and the journalism war.We also take a look at Three Waters reform and the appalling decision to force it through.And finally, your thoughts in the Mailroom. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to a podcast before? Check out our simple how-to guide. Listen here on iHeartRadio Leighton Smi...
Oct 27, 2021•1 hr 16 min
On this week's podcast: Nick Cater, Executive Director of the Menzies Research Centre and columnist for The Australian, discusses Cop 26 and covid, Australian politics and the journalism war.We also take a look at Three Waters reform and the appalling decision to force it through.And finally, your thoughts in the Mailroom. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to a podcast before? Check out our simple how-to guide. Listen here on iHeartRadio Leighton Smi...
Oct 27, 2021•1 hr 16 min
On this week's podcast: Oliver Hartwich, Executive Director of The NZ Institute, guests on Podcast 133 and we cover a raft of important matters. We discuss the state of the economy and the Covid effect. We talk interest rates, the governments direction and the damage it’s doing around centralism, education and debt. We touch on supply chains, Germany and the Nobel Prize. We stop off at the Mailroom with your commentary and we finish with the controversy over Ivermectin. File your comments and co...
Oct 20, 2021•1 hr 37 min
On this week's podcast: In early 2020, nearly every government in the world, in a multitude of ways, increased its direct control of people’s lives. "The Great Covid Panic” examines how the madness started, what kept it going and how it might end. Guesting is co-author Professor Gigi Foster from the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales. It's a lengthy expose.Finally, to the Mailroom, and a further submission from a former National MP who addresses political leadership in a br...
Oct 12, 2021•1 hr 31 min
On this week's podcast: Leadership is on our mind. Alternatively, lack of leadership. It’s been suggested we need a present day Moses but the 40 years it took him to clear the desert is fractionally too long for us. Maybe the leadership needs to originate in us. Herd leadership maybe?Barry Brownstein, PhD, Professor emeritus of both Economics and Leadership addresses what’s missing and how it can be resolved.We ask whether the great New Zealand dream is dead. And we introduce you to speech “clam...
Oct 06, 2021•1 hr 26 min
On this week's podcast: We take a look at The AUKUS Alliance. New Zealand is excluded, but the introduction of nuclear powered subs into the Australian Navy has implications for us here, like it or not.Salvatore Babones, American Associate Professor at University of Sydney, examines the effects the alliance will have on this country.We turn our attention again to Wuhan.The subject of brainwashing gets our attention and, as always, we dive into the Mailroom. File your comments and complaints at L...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 26 min
On this week's podcast: I’ve been reading Jeffrey Tucker’s work for the past couple of years. He is an economist by profession, but has had a career with a far greater scope. After some time at the American Institute of Economic Research, he has recently founded the Brownstone Institute. He provides some invaluable commentary on Covid 19 and the answer to “the single greatest danger facing humanity”.We indulge in some history, both ancient and modern, also, we go to the Mailroom for your invalua...
Sep 22, 2021•1 hr 21 min
On this week's podcast:If you have no political interest in Act leader David Seymour you may reappraise that opinion after you hear podcast 128. He’s not perfect, but he just might be the least imperfect politician in parliament.We make further comment on freedom of expression and Covid culture.And we look at your communication in the Mailroom. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to a podcast before? Check out our simple how-to guide. Listen here on iH...
Sep 15, 2021•1 hr 20 min
On this week's podcast: We ask whether you think democracy is under threat. Are Three Waters and He Puapua compatible with democracy? We don’t think so. But how much do you care?Muriel Newman takes a dive into the subject with us.We have commentary on education and Marxism, and sex versus progressive gender.And, of course, your missives in the Mailroom. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to a podcast before? Check out our simple how-to guide. Listen h...
Sep 08, 2021•1 hr 16 min
On this week's podcast: It was a momentous week, as the United States withdrew from Afghanistan.We talk with Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Whitehead (ret) on the whole debacle, and the ensuing collapse of military integrity. He fervently expresses the widespread anger in the U.S. military.Then Patrick Basham, founding Director of the Democracy Institute, analyses the differences between the Biden and the Trump administrations. His commentary, as always, is not to be missed.And finally, the Mailroom...
Sep 01, 2021•1 hr 39 min
This weeks interview is definitely not to be missed. Aaron David Miller, author of "The End Of Greatness; Why America Can’t Have (And Doesn’t Want) Another Great President", talks crises, Afghanistan, Presidents and New Zealand. You may or may not agree with him…. We’ve had a great response to Sir John Key’s comments in the Mailroom this week. And experts…are they really experts? File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to a podcast before? Check out our si...
Aug 25, 2021•1 hr 18 min
On this week's podcast: After three terms as Prime Minister, Sir John Key has been gone from politics for five years. Recently his opinion has been sought on the political landscape. We discuss Afghanistan, NZ politics, Covid, Auckland crime and plenty else. We talk with Bryan Leyland about power supply. He’s got plenty of advice for a floundering administration. Finally, the Mailroom with all your commentary. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to a p...
Aug 18, 2021•1 hr 36 min
On this week's podcast: Rebekah Koffler talks to us about her new release, “Putin's Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America”. Born and raised in Soviet Russia, and now an American mother, she worked as an analyst for the Defence Intelligence Agency. She is concerned with the growth of authoritarianism in the U.S. We talk with Jordan Williams on the enemies of freedom and the Free Speech Union’s forthcoming appeal before the Supreme Court. And we delve into The Mailroom with Mrs Producer...
Aug 11, 2021•1 hr 32 min
On this week's podcast: Alwyn Poole, from the Villa Education Trust, talks about his absurd battle with the Ministry of Education and the minister. It’s crazy! And we talk with Bob McCoskrie, the national director of Family First. We discuss freedom, education, wokeism, conversion therapy and more. We ruminate over liberty and freedom and delve into the Mailroom with Mrs Producer. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz Haven't listened to a podcast before? Check out our s...
Aug 03, 2021•1 hr 28 min
On this week's podcast: We talk with Ted Rule, diplomat, investment banker, sinologist and writer. With a forty-year career behind him, in Asia and specifically in China, it makes a for a very interesting discussion. We ask him who runs China and should we be afraid of the CCP. We touch on the great famine (1958-62) and ask whether Shenzhen might even be the most exciting city in the world. Ted talks about the trials of being a junior diplomat in 1970's Beijing, and of course relations between C...
Jul 28, 2021•1 hr 17 min
On this week's podcast: Semi-retired merchant banker Jonathan Urlich discusses his take on the global economy, the investment environment, Interest rates, equities, housing, the NZ economy, and more.There is further commentary on the growing dissatisfaction in the governance of the country.A story that took place in 1999 has a sequel. It exemplifies the importance of good parenting and values.And the Mailroom with your contributions. File your comments and complaints at Leighton@newstalkzb.co.nz...
Jul 21, 2021•1 hr 32 min
On this week's podcast:We talk to Wolfgang Kasper, economist, historian, linguist and traveller. Born in 1939 Germany, he was educated in London and Paris and finally settled in Australia in the early seventies. In a wide ranging interview we discuss Western Civilisation and does it have a future? The title of an essay he wrote in 2018. His views and opinions are essential listening. We also comment on threats to NZ in the present crisis. And, of course, the Mailroom with Mrs Producer. File your...
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 19 min
