The Dispatches

Every week during the Christmas/January holiday break we are going to be posting special interview podcasts that have previously only been published as video interviews. This week we start with something light, a conversation with Pete Espil, my American, ex-Marine pal - we trade notes on what we consider to be our top 10 Western films! . ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I talk about the six reasons why I think that The Disinformation Project is making things worse in New Zealand. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia ❤️Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com

In this episode I examine a brand new ruling from the NZ Media Council which raises concern about the lack of balance in Stuff’s ongoing coverage of transgenderism. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I unpack some of the salient highlights from Dave Chappelle’s comedy monologue on Saturday Night Live last week, and how it challenges the dominant cultural narratives of the day. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I discuss how TVNZ’s new documentary ‘Web Of Chaos’ promotes even more unhealthy and divisive moral panic about NZ society. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I discuss how Jacinda Ardern’s extreme Abortion Legislation Act 2020 became even more extreme with the new government mandated requirements for abortion counsellors. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I discuss the Alex Jones trial, and why no one should be celebrating the nine hundred and sixty million dollar fine that has been imposed upon him. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I discuss the blatant disinformation and falsification of history in the new film The Woman King, and Netflix’s new movie Blonde. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I discuss the troubling spectre of the mainstream media giving a platform to baseless and patently absurd Twitter accusations of racism against Vodafone NZ. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

Italy’s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been accused of being the far-right reincarnation of Benito Mussolini, so in this episode we explore why she’s the wrong kind of woman, and why that’s a good thing.. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode of On The Clock we explore the claim that ‘abortion is healthcare’, and why this isn’t true. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode of On The Clock we ask why the percentage of males attending university in NZ has now hit an all time low, and whether we should be worried by this. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode of On The Clock I take 13 minutes to explain why an incident from earlier this week provides more proof there is a moral panic currently taking place in NZ. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode of On The Clock I take 15 minutes to explain the deeper symbolism and danger of Disney’s new ‘Little Demon’ cartoon series. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode of On The Clock I take 12 minutes to explain why we should absolutely have a one-off public holiday to commemorate the death of the Queen. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I discuss the latest data about euthanasia in New Zealand, why its expansion is inventible, and, most importantly, what we can do about it. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I explain why I am troubled by contents of the leaked report into the ARISE Church allegations. Sadly, rather than helping to bring clarity and move the healing process forward, I think this report has the very real potential to derail things and make this already difficult situation even more confused. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I discuss the major flaws in Stuff’s ‘Fire and Fury’ documentary, the serious conflict of interest behind it that raises serious questions about its credibility, and why it has all the hallmarks of a moral panic. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I discuss the Sam Uffindell incident, and the very troubling picture this paints about the current state of our nation and its approach to remorse, redemption and forgiveness,. Most importantly I highlight the serious harms all of this poses to New Zealand and political leadership. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I discuss a recent social media post of mine about Matariki that attracted some contention from others. I explain in more detail my reasoning behind our family’s approach to the celebration of Matariki, and why I believe that all people of the Judeo-Christian tradition need to be more discerning about this. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I explain the origins of the ‘my Body, my choice’ myth, why it doesn’t stack up with the reality of the human experience, and where our legitimate bodily freedoms actually come from. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I dissect a recent TV interview about abortion which exposes the ideological activism of the mainstream media before culminating in a truly shocking moment of live television. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode of I discuss the issue of asking pro-abortion Catholic politicians not to present themselves for Communion, and why this is the most loving response we can offer them. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this latest episode of The Dispatches podcast I discuss the perfect storm of phenomena which I think are omens of a major socio-political upheaval we are currently embroiled in, and how we might best navigate all of this. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this second part of our two part episode of The Dispatches Podcast SPECIAL EDITION, we continue our roundtable discussion with a Catholic priest, a Protestant minister, and a lay theologian about the impact of COVID restrictions on the Christian Church in NZ. In this episode our panel discuss the controversial issue of vaccine segregation, how we might being the process of healing, and what we need to learn from this episode in order to ensure the same mistakes are not repeated in future. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this two part episode of The Dispatches Special Edition, we sit round the table with a Catholic priest, a Protestant minister and a lay theologian - and no, that’s not the start of a good pub joke! - to discuss the impact of COVID, the ever-changing government restrictions, and vaccine segregation on New Zealand churches. Among other things, our guests share how their congregations handled the public gathering rules, the regrets they have about this period, what we need to learn from all of this, and how we might begin to heal the brokenness that has arisen within Christian churches over the past two years. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this latest episode of The Dispatches podcast I respond charitably to some public comments from the Reverend Frank Ritchie and a truly tragic op-ed from the Reverend Glynn Cardy about Easter, and the serious cultural identity crisis that Easter 2022 has once again exposed in NZ. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this latest episode of The Dispatches podcast I share my experience of catching COVID two weeks ago. I talk about my symptoms, the various therapies and home remedies I employed, and the important lessons I have learnt as a result of catching COVID. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this latest episode of The Dispatches podcast, I discuss the so-called ‘safe areas’ Act that was passed in the NZ Parliament on Wednesday night (16 March, 2022). This new Act now makes it possible for peaceful, and even silent, protest within 150m of an abortion facility to be a punishable criminal offence in NZ. In this episode I discuss the history, the specific content, and the serious questions about the legitimacy of this new legislation. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode of The Dispatches I do my best to analyse the events, and the aftermath of the NZ anti-mandate protest outside Parliament now that all of the smoke has cleared. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I discuss an important new article which offers key insights into the freedom movement protests. It proposes that what we are witnessing outside our Parliament, in Canada, and in other parts of the world is actually the result of a new class struggle between ‘the virtuals’ and ‘the physicals’. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I share some observations about the anti-mandate protest in Wellington, what it has revealed about our society, and what a more humane and rational response to this group of protesting New Zealanders and their concerns might look like. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode the kids join me in the studio and we have a raucous and fun filled discussion about our top 10 family Christmas movies. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I examine the various ways in which people have exploited the COVID crisis in order to smuggle in other ideologies, including a recent article proposing some very troubling ideas in response to the so-called crisis of ‘misinformation’. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I explore the question: what qualities make political leaders great? Do we need more politicians who are scientists? Does their private life matter? What about the issue of abortion? ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

Today the Traffic Light System and vaccine passport segregation comes into effect in New Zealand. In this episode I discuss ‘vaccine privilege’, the marginalisation that will be experienced by those who are not vaccinated, and what I am grateful for about this burden. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I discuss the recent Netflix mini-series Midnight Mass, and why I think that the deeper symbolism of the series is perversely horrific and fails to present a mythology that is good, true and beautiful. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I explore the profoundly important moral underpinnings of informed consent, and why a failure to respect this fundamental principle of medical ethics matters so much. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I discuss the profoundly important ‘Live Not By Lies’ essay that was published by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn the day before he was exiled from Marxist-Socialist Soviet Russia for daring to speak up against the injustices of the regime. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I explain why I think that COVID-19 has spawned the equivalent of a Dancing Plague, and what practical steps we can take to avoid the mass hysteria of this moment and confront COVID-19 with greater emotional sobriety. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I offer 12 practical tips for how we can avoid anger and despair and instead choose to keep loving authentically, and live a culture of goodness, truth and beauty in the time of great crisis and division that COVID-19 has wrought upon our society. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

This coming Sunday a new law legalising assisted suicide and euthanasia comes into force in New Zealand. In this episode I discuss what the right thing for a Christian to do would be if someone asked them to accompany them on the journey of euthanasia or assisted suicide. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia ❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I discuss a new investigative journalism article that has just been published in the British Medical Journal raising serious questions about the reliability of the Pfizer vaccine trials. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia The British Medical Journal article: https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635

In this episode I discuss the alarming implications of an astounding new article that has just been published by a Radio New Zealand journalist arguing for media censorship of dissenting voices. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I offer ten reasons why segregating or excluding people from the worshiping community based on their vaccine status is an unjust act that has no place in the Christian Church. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I explain why Desmond Doss is an important model of conscientious objection, and offer seven important principles we can learn from him about how to be a moral conscientious objector in a time of great crisis. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I share my thoughts about why I think that, if we want to live a truly moral life, we need to cling firmly to the truth that there are goods greater than safety and evils worse than death - and therefore certain lines must never be crossed, no matter the cost of not crossing them. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I discuss the media’s disgraceful vaccine witch-hunt that has been targeting New Zealanders with public shaming and bullying. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia ❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I discuss the important warnings that the Lord of the Rings might have to offer us about forcing teachers to be vaccinated or be sacked from their jobs. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia ❤️Our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I explain why it is vitally important to draw your moral line in the sand before you find yourself in a time of crisis, and why you need to be clear about why this is the line that you won't cross. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia ❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia

In this episode I explain why I am extremely concerned after today’s announcement from the Prime Minister that Labour will be implementing vaccine papers as early as next month. ✅ Support Left Foot Media and receive exclusive episodes of The Dispatches at: www.Patreon.com/LeftFootMedia ❤️ Check out our website: www.watchLFM.com ❤️Leave a one-off tip: www.ko-fi.com/leftfootmedia