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Born Again: Romanticism and Fundamentalism (U Toronto Press, 2025) examines the deep historical roots of fundamentalism in Protestantism and the imaginative traditions of Romantic literature. It explores how the resurgence of fundamentalist thought within “born again” Christianity seeks to repress the trauma of modernity through the belief that the world must be radically transformed to align with a divine standard.By analysing the logic of this repression, the book reveals an alternative vision: a “revivalist rebirth” that offers a new ethical imperative to creatively shape the world in collaboration with others. Thinkers such as Immanuel Kant, Percy Shelley, and Friedrich Schlegel are central to the analysis, as are the literary works Faust and Frankenstein. Jeffrey Champlin illustrates how a revivalist imagination challenges blind faith, presenting figures of life reawakened to conscious moral and political engagement. Engaging with Arendt's politics of natality and Derrida's ethics of survival, Born Again offers pathways to reimagine a world that confronts the profound losses fueling fundamentalist ideologies, making it a timely and thought-provoking exploration for contemporary readers.Jeffrey Champlin is Director of the Learning Commons and Lecturer in the Humanities at Bard College Berlin. His research emphasizes connections between literature and political theory. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The home schedule ahead of the 2027 Rugby World Cup is still largely unknown, but Dave Rennie has let one detail slip. The All Blacks coach was on the Mike Hosking Breakfast this morning, and he revealed two tests against the Springboks will take place in Auckland and Christchurch next year. NZ Rugby chairman David Kirk says Rennie has earned his right to be coaching New Zealand's top team. "He's worked his way up, he's done a fantastic job in club rugby in Wellington, and then with Manawatu and then the Chiefs, and then Australia and then around the world... he's really earned his right to be the head coach." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Big money basketball is back with the New Zealand Breakers tipping off the Ignite Cup in Auckland tonight. The Breakers won the in-season tournament last season and banked $300,000 AUD. This season the prize money pool is even bigger. Sports reporter Felicity Reid spoke to Lisa Owen.

As the election campaign continues, two electorate races stand out to as intriguing. Political reporters Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira and Giles Dexter spoke to Lisa Owen about what's been happening in Auckland's Epsom, and Christchurch's Wigram.

Many policy problems facing Aotearoa and the world, from public infrastructure to climate change and inequality, are intergenerational, long-term issues which elected politicians may not be incentivised to shoulder the short-term costs of solving. A citizen's assembly gathers together a representative mini-public to deliberate on issues like these. Citizens' assemblies mean that participants can reach consensus on an issue, develop better understanding of one another, and find pragmatic solutions, all of which can be difficult to achieve through conventional politics. Producer Eloise spoke with Dr Tatjana Buklijaš from the University of Auckland this week about deliberative democracy, citizens' assemblies, and the policy problems they are best equipped to solve.  

Auckland's average asking price has slipped under the $1 million mark for the first time in six years. Data out this morning from realestate.co.nz shows the region's asking price for September was $993,000. Auckland real estate agent Diego Traglia spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

For most people staring down a sentence for drug-related crime, the result is prison. But, in Auckland, there's another way. As part of our five-part series on meth addiction, RNZ has taken a look inside an innovative court that aims to rehabilitate, rather than incarcerate. Finn Blackwell has the story.

It's time for Bookmarks where we invite an interesting person on the show to discuss some of their favourite books...films .. music and more. Today we're joined by outgoing National MP and former Minister Chris Penk. Chris has spent the past 9 years as an MP representing Auckland's Helensville. In August he made headlines when he was stripped of his ministerial portfolios over a failed leadership challenge on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Chris joins Jesse in the Auckland studio.

In the Auckland studio with Jesse is Ali Ventura, head of content at RNZ, Kate Rodger friend of the show, and Senior Afternoons producer Olivia Wilson - they're there to discuss the topics that might not make the news headlines but will be filling up your group chats.

You may have noticed an element of concern, if not alarm, over the number of young people who are not enrolled in the election. In the 18-24 age group there are just 61% enrolled. Last time it was 77%. The Greens in particular have been running campaigns about this for obvious reasons. The trouble is their campaigns are on university campuses where the bright and active hang out, not, I suspect, where those who aren't enrolled hang out. There was also a conspiracy floated momentarily when Chris Luxon last ran into his leadership trouble. Just before the caucus vote there was a lot of angst over the plot, for that's how they saw it, to overthrow Luxon and then call a snap election and the snap would leave thousands of young people un-enrolled. That conspiracy fell apart when, oh that's right, no such thing happened. There has also been the finger pointing over the enrolment rule changes and even though we still have well over three weeks to go its still, according to the aggrieved, not fair. Anyway, none of it is new. Young people have always been hopeless at enrolling and actually voting. It is sad but true, and as far as we can see nothing is changing this time. In fact it's getting worse. The important bit is how that plays out. It's entirely possible that the Greens, once again, are going to enhance their reputation as a party who polls well but doesn't turn out the vote. While we're on polling, the immigrant vote will tell a story not really seen in polling either. Language is an issue and increasingly this country is a country of migrants, especially in Auckland. The migrant population is not well polled. How they vote, which is broadly conservative, might well swing the election in a way, that if you didn't know that, would surprise you. Migrants work hard, strive for better and chase a dream. That's a centre-right view of the world. Watch this space. But key advice – before Chlöe measures the curtains on the Finance Minister's office, she might want to drum up a few more Gen Z-ers to pull their finger out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The famed trans-tasman Laneway festival has released its 2027 line-up - featuring a range of international icons. Irish post-punk band Fontaines DC is headlining on the back of a sell-out European arena tour, alongside Paramore frontwoman, Hayley Williams. Auckland's Western Springs is hosting the festival on February 21. NZ Herald journalist Imogene Bedford says this Laneway line-up feels like a return to the festival's roots, with more small niche artists over big headliners. "I guess for the last couple of years, we've had Charli, and then we had Chappell as these big, huge main headliners - and now we're moving back to what it used to be." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the Raw Politics podcast: voters get their last look at the books, will strategic voting help or harm National, plus Opportunity's bottom linesThe big reveal is over and the economy might well get a lot better a lot more quickly than thought, but might it be too late for voters doing it tough?Today, the Raw Politics panel discusses what we can read into the pre-election economic and fiscal update. Its current numbers are positive but its near future risks and worries are not, and unlikely to pierce the electoral gloom before November 7.Join associate editor Sam Sachdeva and political editor Laura Walters at Parliament and Newsroom co-editor Tim Murphy in Auckland as we ask if Labour is about to run smack, bang into a difficult fiscal reality and if its promises could be unaffordable.The panel also analyses calls for people on the right to vote strategically – for National in the electorate vote and for Act or New Zealand First for the party vote – to theoretically enlarge the total size of Parliament and ensure the centre right wins more than half of it.Our third topic is the Opportunity Party and its five bottom lines announced this week. Its leader Qiulae Wong left off its two biggest policy planks, a universal basic income and land tax, but the panel thinks that's understandable; there's always a need to eat the electoral elephant one bite at a time.Finally, we offer recommendations for you to read, watch or listen to over your weekend:Tim: A column we ran here on Newsroom, with public health expert Dr Boyd Swinburn assessing NZ First's health agenda as “more vibes and vitamins than actual evidence”Laura: Parallel Newsroom analysis on the National and Labour Party campaign launch events, from Sam and Tim. National's taxing campaign to hold the throne & Labour launches with a Wahs-like vibe and a student surpriseSam: Adam Pearse's pitch-perfect NZ Herald dispatch from the campaign trail in Auckland, complete with Simeon Brown getting stranded at a pedestrian crossing and Christopher Luxon asking a young boy to shake his mullet.Raw Politics will be available wherever you get your podcasts at the end of each week, and to watch on YouTube.

Otago fullback Max Hore joins Ric & Chappy to chat about his team's season so far, and to preview their last round match against Auckland tonight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I really like the idea of David Seymour's to turn the old teachers' training college in Epsom into a new co-ed public school. I like even more the idea that it not be zoned. In David Seymour's ideal world, the lovely old 37 acre site that is owned by the University of Auckland and currently lies empty would be jointly operated by two of the top state schools in the country, Auckland Grammar and Epsom Girls Grammar. They're both bursting at the seams with the number of students wanting entry through their gates. If the land that the teachers' training college is on right now was sold and used for more housing, there'd be even more pupils knocking on the door looking for entry at Auckland Grammar and Epsom Girls Grammar. If it was retained for educational purposes, in this case a school, not a teachers' training college, it would also mean there's a bit of green grass in a highly intensified area. I love the idea of it being available to any student across Auckland, no zoning, which begs the question around zoning full stop. Why should your child have to go to the state school nearest you? Why should you not be able to shop around and decide for yourself which school aligns with your child's educational abilities, your child's educational needs, and with your family's values? Is zoning archaic? Being told you have to go there, you don't have a choice. School zones don't just affect education, they also affect property prices too. Zones drive up housing and rental prices in sought after areas, sometimes adding massive premiums to homes near top performing schools, and buying into the area, even if you might have gone to that school and you'd quite like your children to go there, but you can't afford to get there, your family connections count for nothing. Is your child going to the school you want them to go to, or are they having to go to the one that's in your zone? And if you have been resigned to the fact that they have to go to the one that's in zone, are you happy with it, or given the choice, would you send them somewhere else that you think delivers more on your aspirations, your belief about what education should look like? Should families be able to decide for themselves where their children receive their education? Is it time to put an end to zoning full stop and just let parents decide? Are you for or against the idea and the reality of zoning? If you could, would you send your child to another school, or are you perfectly happy with the one you've got now? And for those who are living in the leafy suburb of Epsom, what's the ideal use of the vacant teachers' training college? A school? Sold for more housing? I think I know what you'd prefer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The idea of a new co-ed school in the Auckland suburb of Epsom came from the schools involved – Epsom Girls and Auckland Grammar. ACT Leader and Epsom MP David Seymour says the idea is to ease pressure on the existing single-sex schools. He'll campaign on acquiring Auckland University's $150 million site, formerly used for teacher training and which currently sits empty. Seymour told Kerre Woodham the heads of EGGS and Grammar have had this idea in the works for months. He says Brenda McNaughton and Tim O'Connor approached him, have the backing of their boards, and are very serious. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The most effective way to reduce visceral fat is a combination of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and resistance training, though regular moderate-intensity cardio or aerobic exercise also helps, according to current research.In this episode of the “NASM CPT Podcast,” host Rick Richey unpacks the scientific evidence on exercise strategies for reducing visceral fat, addressing frequent confusion over whether HIIT or continuous moderate-intensity exercise is better. Citing several systematic reviews and meta-analyses, Rick explains that while some studies show no clear advantage between HIIT and steady-state cardio, many find that interval training, especially when extended beyond 12 weeks, provides superior reductions in visceral fat, particularly for individuals with overweight or obesity. He also highlights that progressive, combined training—mixing vigorous-intensity cardio with moderate or low-intensity resistance training—can further support visceral fat loss, which is particularly beneficial for at-risk groups such as older adults and postmenopausal women. Listeners will learn how to apply these research-backed exercise protocols for themselves or their clients, how to track progress, and why gradual progression is key, especially for those new to higher intensity workouts. This presentation also offers practical coaching insights on how to encourage clients to embrace challenging new routines. Chapters: 00:00 What is the most effective way to reduce visceral fat? 01:10 What is visceral fat and why does it matter for health? 02:26 How did a client respond to advice about losing visceral fat? 03:20 What exercise strategies can help reduce visceral fat? 05:22 Does high-intensity interval training work better than continuous cardio for visceral fat? 06:52 What does the research say about HIIT versus moderate-intensity exercise? 08:29 Are long-duration HIIT sessions more effective for fat loss? 09:18 Does exercise help reduce visceral fat in teens and young adults? 10:26 How does exercise dose relate to visceral fat loss? 12:29 Does combining resistance and aerobic training give better results for visceral fat? 13:56 How can trainers help hesitant clients start higher intensity workouts? 15:54 What extra benefits come with high-intensity training compared to moderate exercise? 16:41 Should you choose HIIT, resistance training, or regular cardio to help most people reduce visceral fat? Show References:Kramer, A. M., Martins, J. B., de Oliveira, P. C., Lehnen, A. M., & Waclawovsky, G. (2023). High-intensity interval training is not superior to continuous aerobic training in reducing body fat: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. Journal of exercise science and fitness, 21(4), 385–394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesf.2023.09.002  Poon, E. T., Li, H. Y., Little, J. P., Wong, S. H., & Ho, R. S. (2024). Efficacy of Interval Training in Improving Body Composition and Adiposity in Apparently Healthy Adults: An Umbrella Review with Meta-Analysis. Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 54(11), 2817–2840. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-024-02070-9 Wang, R., Zhang, X., Ren, H., Zhou, H., Yuan, Y., Chai, Y., & Hou, X. (2022). Effects of different exercise types on visceral fat in young individuals with obesity aged 6-24 years old: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in physiology, 13, 987804. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.987804  Chang, Y., Wang, L., Wang, H., & Zhan, E. (2026). Unveiling the perfect workout: exercise modalities and dosages to combat visceral adipose tissue in individuals with overweight and obesity - a systematic review with pairwise, network, and dose-response meta-analyses. Nutrition & metabolism, 23(1), 75. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12986-026-01129-w  Lin, X., Li, G., Xie, J., & Wang, S. (2026). Effects of concurrent training on fat mass and its distribution in individuals with overweight or obesity: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and exploratory regression analysis. BMC public health, 26(1), 1403. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-026-26869-5 If you like what you just consumed, leave us a 5-star review, and share this episode with a friend to help grow our NASM health and wellness community! The content shared in this podcast is solely for educational and entertainment purposes. It is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek out the guidance of your healthcare provider or other qualified professional. Any opinions expressed by guests and hosts are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of NASM. Introducing NASM One, the membership for trainers and coaches. For just $35/mo., get unlimited access to over 300 continuing education courses, 50% off additional certifications and specializations, EDGE Trainer Pro all-in-one coaching app to grow your business, unlimited exam attempts and select waived fees. Stay on top of your game and ahead of the curve as a fitness professional with NASM One. Click here to learn more. https://bit.ly/4ddsgrm

To some, election billboards might seem a bit old fashion, a symbol of a bygone political era, to others, a platform to vent their frustrations with politicians. A man has been arrested for allegedly defacing and removing election hoardings in Auckland's Takanini. So are billboards still an effective way to reach voters? Political marketing expert at the University of Auckland, Dr Edward Elder spoke to Lisa Owen.

From tomorrow, Auckland Transport as it currently is will cease to exist, with many of its non-public transport functions moving under the control of the city's councillors and local board members. The changes will give local boards some new powers to make decisions on local roads including setting speed limits, closing roads for events, managing parking and creating cycleways. East Auckland-based Howick Local Board member Damian Light spoke to John Campbell.

Punters, pundits and politicians are eyeing one of Auckland's most competitive electorates as a bellwether for the rest of New Zealand. In 2023, Maungakiekie's party vote was the closest to New Zealand's overall result - making it a seat to watch. Felix Walton has more.

Councils around the country are looking to follow Auckland in scrapping postal voting for local elections. Auckland councillors have voted to bring back in-person voting for the 2028 local elections, becoming the first council to use polling booths since 1992. Local Government New Zealand wants that change rolled out nationwide. South Wairarapa mayor and Chair of LGNZ's Local Government System Reference Group Dame Fran Wilde spoke to John Campbell.

Tauranga City Council's chief executive Marty Grenfell has stepped down six weeks after a damning review found January's deadly landslide was preventable. In the report, retired High Court judge Paul Davison outlined a systemic failure where responsibility for the risk fell between different parts of the council and no one was ultimately managing it. But no one person was ever held responsible. Safety and employment lawyer Hazel Armstrong has sat on a number of boards, including the Ports of Auckland when they had to deal with workplace deaths. Armstrong spoke to John Campbell.

A new luxury store opens in Auckland's CBD, as a conference in the city weighs up the increase in businesses' use of artificial intelligence and whether it could spell the end for traditional software services.

A Manurewa teacher was pulled on stage at Jason Derulo's Auckland concert last night, and put on the spot to dance in front of thousands of people. Mele Taeiloa seized the moment, with a video going viral online. Mele Taeiloa spoke to Lisa Owen.

Lok Fung Lorrence Li was involved in a minor car crash. Instead of settling things through insurance companies, Li went to the Disputes Tribunal and got the home address of the other driver, Fuk Fu Joseph Kwok. Almost a year later Li went to the Kwoks' Ellerslie home and brutally murdered the theatre nurse and his wife,Mei Han Chong. Today in the High Court at Auckland, a jury found him guilty of both murders, as well as conspiring to murder his landlord. Finn Blackwell reports.

A pharmacist in one of Auckland's wealthier suburbs is worried about people using GLP-1 weight loss drugs, when they don't need them. The injectable drugs mimic natural hormones that make you feel full, slow the stomach emptying and control blood sugar. Auckland Pharmacist Shirley Coleman spoke to Lisa Owen.

Tune in to this discussion about How Real Is Race?: Unraveling Race, Biology, and Culture by Carol C. Mukhopadhyay, Rosemary Henze, and Yolanda T. Moses (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)Biologically speaking, there is no such thing as race. Yet this seems to contradict the experiences of people in the United States and other countries where racial classification is used daily, by individuals and institutions. Race still matters, whether in wealth accumulation, educational achievement, health, the legal system, or in personal safety. How can race not be real when we experience its effects every day?Mukhopadhyay, Henze, and Moses systematically deconstruct the myth of race as biology and address the reality of race as a cultural invention, drawing on biocultural, historical, and cross-cultural anthropological perspectives. In doing so, they shed light on the intricate interplay among race, biology, culture, power, and stratification. Part I, “The Fallacy of Race as Biology,” unravels the myth that races are biologically valid divisions of humanity. Part II, “Culture Creates Race,” explores race as a social construction; the emergence of the racial worldview as ideological justification for inequality; and how social processes, especially restrictions on interracial sex and marriage, maintained visible markers of racial hierarchy. Part III, “Contemporary Issues,” examines current manifestations of racial stratification including the educational achievement gap, health disparities, and how the language of race embodies and reinforces a racial worldview.Dr. Mukhopadhyay is a cultural anthropologist whose specialties are gender, family, sexuality, race, cultural diversity, multicultural education, cognitive anthropology, ethnographic decision-modeling, theory and methodology. Her research has focused on gendered activities, in households, politics, music, and science & engineering (STEM). This has involved fieldwork in both the United States and India.Dr. Rosemary Henze is an educational anthropologist whose teaching, research, and educational projects seek to enhance social justice and equity in education. She applies concepts and methods from anthropology and linguistics to the study of race relations, immigration and multilingualism, Islamophobia, and the spread of English, among other topics. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Offers a transformative reading of the Marxist tradition by uncovering its connections to the institutions and practices of worker education.For the past hundred years, “vulgar Marxism” has been the go-to insult among socialist and communist intellectuals, a shorthand for the ways Marxist theory could go wrong. But why would thinkers advocating for working-class emancipation use “vulgarity” as an epithet? In Vulgar Marxism: Revolutionary Politics and the Dilemmas of Worker Education, 1891–1931 (U Chicago Press, 2025), Edward Baring seeks an answer by delving into debates over Marxism in the first decades of the twentieth century. He shows that this common phrase wasn't aimed primarily at popular understandings of Marx. Rather, it was used to attack intellectuals for failing to teach Marx's theory to the working masses correctly. His history of “vulgar Marxism” homes in on the project of mass worker education at a time when the project was both widely pursued and fiercely contested. Worker education offered a mechanism through which Marxist theory was meant to promote large-scale social and political change, and it drew on a massive infrastructure of schools, publishing houses, and educational bureaus that stretched across Europe and reached millions. By centering this project, Baring radically recasts the history of Marxism from the Second International to World War II. He challenges classic oppositions between “economistic” and “cultural” versions of Marxism; rereads many of the most significant Marxist theorists of the time, including Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Georg Lukács, and Antonio Gramsci; and offers new resources for understanding how Marxist ideas transformed as they traveled around Europe and then spread throughout the world.Edward Baring is associate professor of history and human values at Princeton University. He is the author of Converts to the Real and The Young Derrida.Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

As part of RNZ's series - Meth Toll, yesterday we heard about 57-year-old Deeann Herkt, who has now been sober for 11 years. In 2015, she referred herself to the Salvation Army Bridge Programme in Auckland, where she met a counsellor with a lived experience of meth addiction, who became a key navigator in her road to recovery. Emma Hunter, Service Development Lead at Salvation Army spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

A woman arrested in the first operation by the Government's black market tobacco action group has appeared in Auckland District Court. She's been charged with the sale of uncustomed goods, and is likely to join others charged in Hamilton. Auckland reporter Finn Blackwell who's been investigating the tobacco black market this year spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

The Auckland electorate seat of Mt Albert could prove pivotal for National as it plots its way back to power. Labour have held the seat for decades but nearly lost it in 2023, only holding on by the slimmest of margins. But, there is a new contender whose party could tip the balance of power come November 7. Political reporter Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira spoke to the candidates.

On today's episode Chris Hipkins discusses Labour's latest poll result; Councillors meet to discuss Auckland landslide risks; Booth's Logistics boss discusses fuel price rises; John Campbell talks to voters in Mt Roskill electorate.

Auckland Council is facing similar risk management challenges as Tauranga City Council when it comes to the risk of landslides. Ross Roberts is the chief engineer at Auckland Council, and co-author of a paper about risk, risk management, and what Mauao tells Auckland, that councillors will discuss today. He spoke to John Campbell.

Yesterday, Chris Hipkins went to Christchurch, and Christopher Luxon stayed in Auckland, visiting an electorate National won for the first time ever in 2023, Mt Roskill. Labour losing that seat was emblematic of just how damaging the swing against them was in Auckland, last election. John Campbell asked local voters what issues they'll be voting on, this election.

Tune in to this discussion about How Real Is Race?: Unraveling Race, Biology, and Culture by Carol C. Mukhopadhyay, Rosemary Henze, and Yolanda T. Moses (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)Biologically speaking, there is no such thing as race. Yet this seems to contradict the experiences of people in the United States and other countries where racial classification is used daily, by individuals and institutions. Race still matters, whether in wealth accumulation, educational achievement, health, the legal system, or in personal safety. How can race not be real when we experience its effects every day?Mukhopadhyay, Henze, and Moses systematically deconstruct the myth of race as biology and address the reality of race as a cultural invention, drawing on biocultural, historical, and cross-cultural anthropological perspectives. In doing so, they shed light on the intricate interplay among race, biology, culture, power, and stratification. Part I, “The Fallacy of Race as Biology,” unravels the myth that races are biologically valid divisions of humanity. Part II, “Culture Creates Race,” explores race as a social construction; the emergence of the racial worldview as ideological justification for inequality; and how social processes, especially restrictions on interracial sex and marriage, maintained visible markers of racial hierarchy. Part III, “Contemporary Issues,” examines current manifestations of racial stratification including the educational achievement gap, health disparities, and how the language of race embodies and reinforces a racial worldview.Dr. Mukhopadhyay is a cultural anthropologist whose specialties are gender, family, sexuality, race, cultural diversity, multicultural education, cognitive anthropology, ethnographic decision-modeling, theory and methodology. Her research has focused on gendered activities, in households, politics, music, and science & engineering (STEM). This has involved fieldwork in both the United States and India.Dr. Rosemary Henze is an educational anthropologist whose teaching, research, and educational projects seek to enhance social justice and equity in education. She applies concepts and methods from anthropology and linguistics to the study of race relations, immigration and multilingualism, Islamophobia, and the spread of English, among other topics. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Fresh off an unforgettable trip to Baltimore — and battling a bit of post-travel sickness — I'm recapping a genuine rugby bucket-list experience: the All Blacks and Springboks in the United States, historic attendance at MT&T Bank Stadium, incredible access to the teams, and what an event of that scale can mean for rugby's growth in America.Then we get into a massive week across New Zealand rugby. I break down NZ Rugby's reported $66 million financial challenge, why the NPC and Ranfurly Shield remain vital to the game's future, and why it matters that players including Beauden Barrett, Noah Hotham, Cortez Ratima, George Bell, Emoni Narawa and others are returning to represent their provinces.I also unpack the Black Ferns' heartbreaking Red Roses defeat, Counties Manukau's emotional Ranfurly Shield win, Northland's incredible Shield journey, and the attacking ambition of Auckland's Rico Simpson.In the second half, it is all about one of the wildest Tests of the year: the Wallabies' 42–38 win over the Springboks. Australia held on with just 11 men, lifted the Mandela Challenge Plate, and delivered a major statement against the reigning world champions.Plus, I reflect on making my play-by-play commentary debut for UCLA Rugby's last-minute win over Michigan, and look ahead to UCLA's upcoming home fixtures against Brown and Southern Nazarene.In this episode:Baltimore recap: All Blacks, Springboks and a record U.S. rugby crowdWhat NZ Rugby's financial challenge means for the gameWhy All Blacks returning to the NPC mattersBlack Ferns v Red Roses reactionCounties Manukau win the Ranfurly ShieldWallabies survive with 11 men against South AfricaUCLA Rugby commentary debut and upcoming matches

Offers a transformative reading of the Marxist tradition by uncovering its connections to the institutions and practices of worker education.For the past hundred years, “vulgar Marxism” has been the go-to insult among socialist and communist intellectuals, a shorthand for the ways Marxist theory could go wrong. But why would thinkers advocating for working-class emancipation use “vulgarity” as an epithet? In Vulgar Marxism: Revolutionary Politics and the Dilemmas of Worker Education, 1891–1931 (U Chicago Press, 2025), Edward Baring seeks an answer by delving into debates over Marxism in the first decades of the twentieth century. He shows that this common phrase wasn't aimed primarily at popular understandings of Marx. Rather, it was used to attack intellectuals for failing to teach Marx's theory to the working masses correctly. His history of “vulgar Marxism” homes in on the project of mass worker education at a time when the project was both widely pursued and fiercely contested. Worker education offered a mechanism through which Marxist theory was meant to promote large-scale social and political change, and it drew on a massive infrastructure of schools, publishing houses, and educational bureaus that stretched across Europe and reached millions. By centering this project, Baring radically recasts the history of Marxism from the Second International to World War II. He challenges classic oppositions between “economistic” and “cultural” versions of Marxism; rereads many of the most significant Marxist theorists of the time, including Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Georg Lukács, and Antonio Gramsci; and offers new resources for understanding how Marxist ideas transformed as they traveled around Europe and then spread throughout the world.Edward Baring is associate professor of history and human values at Princeton University. He is the author of Converts to the Real and The Young Derrida.Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Offers a transformative reading of the Marxist tradition by uncovering its connections to the institutions and practices of worker education.For the past hundred years, “vulgar Marxism” has been the go-to insult among socialist and communist intellectuals, a shorthand for the ways Marxist theory could go wrong. But why would thinkers advocating for working-class emancipation use “vulgarity” as an epithet? In Vulgar Marxism: Revolutionary Politics and the Dilemmas of Worker Education, 1891–1931 (U Chicago Press, 2025), Edward Baring seeks an answer by delving into debates over Marxism in the first decades of the twentieth century. He shows that this common phrase wasn't aimed primarily at popular understandings of Marx. Rather, it was used to attack intellectuals for failing to teach Marx's theory to the working masses correctly. His history of “vulgar Marxism” homes in on the project of mass worker education at a time when the project was both widely pursued and fiercely contested. Worker education offered a mechanism through which Marxist theory was meant to promote large-scale social and political change, and it drew on a massive infrastructure of schools, publishing houses, and educational bureaus that stretched across Europe and reached millions. By centering this project, Baring radically recasts the history of Marxism from the Second International to World War II. He challenges classic oppositions between “economistic” and “cultural” versions of Marxism; rereads many of the most significant Marxist theorists of the time, including Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Georg Lukács, and Antonio Gramsci; and offers new resources for understanding how Marxist ideas transformed as they traveled around Europe and then spread throughout the world.Edward Baring is associate professor of history and human values at Princeton University. He is the author of Converts to the Real and The Young Derrida.Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Tune in to this discussion about How Real Is Race?: Unraveling Race, Biology, and Culture by Carol C. Mukhopadhyay, Rosemary Henze, and Yolanda T. Moses (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)Biologically speaking, there is no such thing as race. Yet this seems to contradict the experiences of people in the United States and other countries where racial classification is used daily, by individuals and institutions. Race still matters, whether in wealth accumulation, educational achievement, health, the legal system, or in personal safety. How can race not be real when we experience its effects every day?Mukhopadhyay, Henze, and Moses systematically deconstruct the myth of race as biology and address the reality of race as a cultural invention, drawing on biocultural, historical, and cross-cultural anthropological perspectives. In doing so, they shed light on the intricate interplay among race, biology, culture, power, and stratification. Part I, “The Fallacy of Race as Biology,” unravels the myth that races are biologically valid divisions of humanity. Part II, “Culture Creates Race,” explores race as a social construction; the emergence of the racial worldview as ideological justification for inequality; and how social processes, especially restrictions on interracial sex and marriage, maintained visible markers of racial hierarchy. Part III, “Contemporary Issues,” examines current manifestations of racial stratification including the educational achievement gap, health disparities, and how the language of race embodies and reinforces a racial worldview.Dr. Mukhopadhyay is a cultural anthropologist whose specialties are gender, family, sexuality, race, cultural diversity, multicultural education, cognitive anthropology, ethnographic decision-modeling, theory and methodology. Her research has focused on gendered activities, in households, politics, music, and science & engineering (STEM). This has involved fieldwork in both the United States and India.Dr. Rosemary Henze is an educational anthropologist whose teaching, research, and educational projects seek to enhance social justice and equity in education. She applies concepts and methods from anthropology and linguistics to the study of race relations, immigration and multilingualism, Islamophobia, and the spread of English, among other topics. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Auckland's Heritage Festival has just kicked off - and amongst the many events that will run for the next two weeks, one special display has caught our eye. It's called Grannie's Goodies and can be found at the Orewa Library. It's all about celebrating those cherished family recipes passed down through generations. But turns out the display needs more contributions... Joining Emile is festival spokesperson Rebecca Fox.

Some homeopaths leave a lasting impression not only through their own work, but through the people and ideas they pass on, and Mary Glaisyer has certainly had that experience with Bruce Barwell. A former lecturer and longtime homeopath from New Zealand, Mary shares her memories of working alongside Bruce and the unusual way he approached cases and remedies. We talk about her book The Special Therapeutics of Bruce Barwell, how it brings together his clinical insights, and some of the lesser-known remedies featured in it. Mary also shares her own journey into homeopathy and how, at 74, she found a new outlet for her love of laughter and storytelling through stand-up comedy. Episode Highlights: 03:10 - Mary's Journey into Homeopathy 05:41 - Mary's Move to New Zealand 06:52 - Bruce Barwell: A Phenomenon 09:19 - Learning from Bruce 12:25 - Bruce's Generosity and Success 14:49 - Bruce's Teaching Style 17:38 - The Legacy of Bruce Barwell 19:10 - Sources of Information for the Book 22:25 - Unique Remedies and Insights 25:49 - Desmodium for Kidney Stones 29:12 - ADHD Remedies 31:05 - Pulsatilla for Torsion 35:07 - PMS Treatment 39:47 - Comedy at 74 45:29 - Protocol for Treating Broken Bones About my Guests: Mary Glaisyer graduated from the College of Homeopathy in London in 1986 and emigrated to New Zealand in 1988. She settled in Nelson, where she has been practising homeopathy ever since. She has also taught at several homeopathic colleges in New Zealand. She is the author of The Special Therapeutics of Bruce Barwell and Homeopathy for Childbirth. While passionate about homeopathy, Mary also believes in the power of laughter to promote health. That is why, at the age of 74, she became a stand-up comedian and storyteller, a role she has continued for the past six years. Who was Bruce Barwell? Bruce was an influential New Zealand homeopath and polymath. He was originally a journalist who went to India to train to be a homeopath. He was President of the New Zealand Homeopathic Society for the 13 years before his death and edited its journal Homeopathica. He worked for 35 years in his clinic in down town Auckland latterly assisted by his wife Ruth. He treated many thousands of patients in his lifetime which ended in 2008 at the age of 67. My time with Bruce Barwell I sat in with Bruce at his clinic in the early 90's. I was there for 5 days. I met Bruce and Ruth at a conference at the Bay of Plenty College of homeopathy and tentatively asked if I could sit in with him. I was very fortunate to be able to do this as he rarely allowed anyone to sit in with him. Bruce was just lovely with his patients but to homeopaths he could be aloof and sometimes acerbic. Bruce suggested that I stay at a pub (which turned out to be very noisy) near to his clinic. He told me that I should turn up at his clinic in time for the first patient at 7am. This I did but after a couple of days I got an awful head ache – the early start and no breakfast – I asked if I could come in a bit later. Bruce and Ruth worked out of a tiny clinic in an old building with an antiquated lift. I think you took your life in your hands when you got in that lift! When I arrived Ruth was in her position in the waiting room behind her desk and Bruce reading behind an open door. “Go in” said Ruth. I thought it better to wait until summoned. I was very impressed by Bruce's success rate using the most unusual remedies. He did not repertorise in the conventional way but drew on his prodigious memory of Materia Medica to prescribe. What led me to compile “The Special Therapeutics of Bruce Barwell”? I was aware that Bruce had used many remedies successfully that were unusual and that if noone did a compilation then this knowledge would be lost. I contacted the NZ Homeopathic Society and they were keen that I should take the job on. I remember that my husband had a kidney stone that was causing him considerable pain as it passed down the ureter. He was told that if he had not passed it within 3 more weeks he would have to have an operation. I rang Bruce up and Bruce sent down Desmodium Styracifolium 6x to be taken twice a day for a while. My husband did not need the operation as he sieved his urine and found tiny fragments of stone in it. Desmodium is a herb used in Chinese medicine and it is not yet available in potency. I thought the homeopathic community should know about Desmodium. It would be great if a pharmacy would make up this remedy so the world could use it, and the other remedies that only Bruce used, so I set about trying to bring the information together. One would think that patients' notes might be a useful source but that was not to be. I knew what his notes were like having sat in with him and they were something like this: name of patient, address, phone number, name of the patient's cat ( so he could ask after it at subsequent interviews) name of condition and remedies given – no indication of the reasons for giving the remedy or how the patient responded. So my sources were his published writing, cassette tape recordings of lectures to the homeopathic society, some private correspondence, notes that students made of his lectures and some things that Bruce told me himself. How long did the work take you? 5 years. This was because it stalled for quite some time. I found it a chore. The fact that it ever got finished was owing to a woman I met to whom I confided my frustration and difficulty in getting down to the work. She said,” Well can you do something for 20 minutes?” “Yes” “so just do 20 minutes.” So I did and gradually found the 20 minutes stretching and finally I finished the book. There were some funny moments. I was listening to a taped lecture and Bruce said, “ You may remember at the end of the last session I asked you for your religious affiliation – it turns out that in this group we have 3 Christians, 4 Buddhists, 2 Muslims, 4 humanists and a Sikh ( I am making up the numbers but you get the idea.) There was then a pause. Then Bruce said, “ So we will not be beginning the session with a prayer.” Another time I was listening to a tape and transcribing it. Bruce asked the group to remind him of a mineral water remedy he had used. There was a silent pause punctuated only by my loud interjection in the privacy of my study. “Skookumchuck” I called out. Then Bruce resumed his lecture, “ No it's not Skookumchuck” Bruce said drily. I nearly jumped out of my skin! Some remedies that I have used by referring to the book: Procaine Pennicillin 200 – available from Simillimum Pharmacy in Wellington. Wonderful for post tooth extraction.Story of gardener. Bovista – patient after general anaesthetic, feeling flat, no energy, super tired but not sleeping, can't get to sleep until 1am, wakes 2.30am and takes a while to get back to sleep, coated white tongue. For after anaesthetic he lists: Strontium Carb, Bovista, Carbo Veg and Phosphorus. My patient did not want company nor fresh air. Bovista picked her up very quickly.  Bruce taught that Pulsatilla isn't just useful in turning a breech baby in utero but could be used for tortion of any body part – he had success with twisted testicles and I suggested Pulsatilla high to someone whose stomach was twisted – a most unusual thing – they opened her up and found that the stomach had returned to normal. I have a protocol which I would like to share because it works so well. It's for broken bones. You do it for a fortnight. I have had nothing but positive feedback for this protocol which you start once the bone has been set. Symphytum 9. This is Comfrey and the 9th potency recommended by Misha Norland – he said it had an affinity for the etheric. You take this twice a day. Calc Phos 6x – a tissue salt. This you take twice a day. So you wake up and take a Symphytum, then at about 11am two pills of New Era Calc Phos, then mid afternoon another Symphytum and at bedtime two more pills of Calc Phos. If you experience pain - Eupatorium Perfoliatum 30. This was Bruce's suggestion. Story of my husband. Some protocols may be useful but the way I generally work is to take the case and find the single remedy that the patient needs at that particular time.  Indivdualisation is the keystone of homeopathy. Story of shingles patient. Find out more about Mary Website: https://www.maryglaisyer.net/ How to buy the books: Contact Mary at mary@glaisyer.com “The Special Therapeutics of Bruce Barwell” $30 plus postage and packing “ Homeopathy for Childbirth” $10 plus postage and packing. (New Zealand dollars) If you would like to support the Homeopathy Hangout Podcast, please consider making a donation by visiting www.EugenieKruger.com and click the DONATE button at the top of the site. Every donation about $10 will receive a shout-out on a future episode. Learn more about CHE Australia and its homeopathy training programs: https://chehomeopathy.com.au/ Join my Homeopathy Hangout Podcast Facebook community here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HelloHomies Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/eugeniekrugerhomeopathy/ Here is the link to my free 30-minute Homeopathy@Home online course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqBUpxO4pZQ&t=438s Upon completion of the course - and if you live in Australia - you can join my Facebook group for free acute advice (you'll need to answer a couple of questions about the course upon request to join): www.facebook.com/groups/eughom                    

Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland.

Deputy political editor Craig McCulloch was in Auckland for Labour's campaign launch.

On SBS Filipino's Trending podcast, BINI is trending in Australia and New Zealand as the Philippine Nation's Girl Group brings its Signals World Tour to Melbourne, Auckland and Sydney, showcasing P-pop favourites to Blooms across the region. - Sa Trending podcast ng SBS Filipino, magiliw na pinag-uusapan ang grupong BINI sa Australia at New Zealand matapos dalhin ng Nation's Girl Group ang kanilang Signals World Tour sa Melbourne, Auckland at Sydney, tampok ang kanilang P-pop hits at suporta ng mga Blooms.

There's a feeling Labour's leader is trying to ramp up the energy as election campaigning officially gets underway. Both major parties launched their campaigns in Auckland yesterday. While National stuck with slick videos and multiple speeches at the flashy International Convention Centre, Labour opted for a high-energy performance at Manukau's Due Drop Events Centre. Political commentator Brigitte Morten says Labour leader Chris Hipkins reacted to talk he'd been looking uncomfortable on the campaign trail. "If you don't want to be on the campaign, you clearly don't want to be Prime Minister again, so I think that was very much what was being told to him and I think he really tried to deliver on that." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thomas Gregory is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His new book, Weaponizing Civilian Protection (Oxford UP, 2025), exposes how coalition efforts to minimize and mitigate civilian casualties during the recent conflict in Afghanistan also worked to rationalize the harm inflicted upon Afghan civilians. Drawing on declassified documents and interviews with coalition officials, the book traces how civilian protection was reimagined as a martial tactic rather than a humanitarian imperative, with coalition officials reframing civilian casualties as strategic setbacks that could imperil the entire mission. Gregory examines the restrictions that coalition officials imposed on combat operations to minimize unnecessary harm to civilians, whilst showing how these restrictions served to constitute civilian casualties as necessary in certain situations, rendering their lives losable and their deaths ungrievable. At the same time, it examines the post-incident mitigation measures coalition officials used to prevent civilian casualties becoming strategic setbacks, including the condolence payments that were offered when civilians were harmed. Rather than seeking to make amends for the harm inflicted upon them, it claims that these post-incident mitigation measures are best characterized as a necropolitical device concerned with managing mortality more effectively. Crucially, Weaponizing Civilian Protection shows that co-opting civilian protection into a martial logic that is more concerned with winning wars than protecting the civilian population works to devalue and dehumanize civilians, leaving them more vulnerable to death and destruction in future conflicts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Thomas Gregory is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His new book, Weaponizing Civilian Protection (Oxford UP, 2025), exposes how coalition efforts to minimize and mitigate civilian casualties during the recent conflict in Afghanistan also worked to rationalize the harm inflicted upon Afghan civilians. Drawing on declassified documents and interviews with coalition officials, the book traces how civilian protection was reimagined as a martial tactic rather than a humanitarian imperative, with coalition officials reframing civilian casualties as strategic setbacks that could imperil the entire mission. Gregory examines the restrictions that coalition officials imposed on combat operations to minimize unnecessary harm to civilians, whilst showing how these restrictions served to constitute civilian casualties as necessary in certain situations, rendering their lives losable and their deaths ungrievable. At the same time, it examines the post-incident mitigation measures coalition officials used to prevent civilian casualties becoming strategic setbacks, including the condolence payments that were offered when civilians were harmed. Rather than seeking to make amends for the harm inflicted upon them, it claims that these post-incident mitigation measures are best characterized as a necropolitical device concerned with managing mortality more effectively. Crucially, Weaponizing Civilian Protection shows that co-opting civilian protection into a martial logic that is more concerned with winning wars than protecting the civilian population works to devalue and dehumanize civilians, leaving them more vulnerable to death and destruction in future conflicts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Thomas Gregory is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His new book, Weaponizing Civilian Protection (Oxford UP, 2025), exposes how coalition efforts to minimize and mitigate civilian casualties during the recent conflict in Afghanistan also worked to rationalize the harm inflicted upon Afghan civilians. Drawing on declassified documents and interviews with coalition officials, the book traces how civilian protection was reimagined as a martial tactic rather than a humanitarian imperative, with coalition officials reframing civilian casualties as strategic setbacks that could imperil the entire mission. Gregory examines the restrictions that coalition officials imposed on combat operations to minimize unnecessary harm to civilians, whilst showing how these restrictions served to constitute civilian casualties as necessary in certain situations, rendering their lives losable and their deaths ungrievable. At the same time, it examines the post-incident mitigation measures coalition officials used to prevent civilian casualties becoming strategic setbacks, including the condolence payments that were offered when civilians were harmed. Rather than seeking to make amends for the harm inflicted upon them, it claims that these post-incident mitigation measures are best characterized as a necropolitical device concerned with managing mortality more effectively. Crucially, Weaponizing Civilian Protection shows that co-opting civilian protection into a martial logic that is more concerned with winning wars than protecting the civilian population works to devalue and dehumanize civilians, leaving them more vulnerable to death and destruction in future conflicts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Thomas Gregory is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His new book, Weaponizing Civilian Protection (Oxford UP, 2025), exposes how coalition efforts to minimize and mitigate civilian casualties during the recent conflict in Afghanistan also worked to rationalize the harm inflicted upon Afghan civilians. Drawing on declassified documents and interviews with coalition officials, the book traces how civilian protection was reimagined as a martial tactic rather than a humanitarian imperative, with coalition officials reframing civilian casualties as strategic setbacks that could imperil the entire mission. Gregory examines the restrictions that coalition officials imposed on combat operations to minimize unnecessary harm to civilians, whilst showing how these restrictions served to constitute civilian casualties as necessary in certain situations, rendering their lives losable and their deaths ungrievable. At the same time, it examines the post-incident mitigation measures coalition officials used to prevent civilian casualties becoming strategic setbacks, including the condolence payments that were offered when civilians were harmed. Rather than seeking to make amends for the harm inflicted upon them, it claims that these post-incident mitigation measures are best characterized as a necropolitical device concerned with managing mortality more effectively. Crucially, Weaponizing Civilian Protection shows that co-opting civilian protection into a martial logic that is more concerned with winning wars than protecting the civilian population works to devalue and dehumanize civilians, leaving them more vulnerable to death and destruction in future conflicts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Linguist and speech researcher Dr Brooke Ross from the University of Auckland has been studying the overlooked sections of the New Zealand accent's history, including the rise of perhaps its newest entry – the Auckland accent.

This week on the Tiger Mommy podcast, Jiaoying welcomes the lovely Gia Gunn! Here energy is truly as fierce as the beat on her face. On this episode, Gia teaches Jiaoying how to eat a banana and about Natalie Nunn, the girls review the Emmy looks and more!About Jiaoying Summers:Jiaoying Summers is a Chinese-American stand-up comedian, actress, and social media influencer known for her bold humor, sharp wit, and unique perspectives on life, culture, and identity. A proud mother and successful performer, Jiaoying's journey from her beginnings in China to becoming a comedy sensation in the U.S. is nothing short of inspiring. She uses her platform to tackle topics like cultural differences, family, and self-empowerment, always leaving audiences laughing and thinking.Stay Connected With Jiaoying:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jiaoyingsummers Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jiaoyingsummers/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jiaoyingsummersX: https://x.com/jiaoyingsummersWebsite: https://summerscomedy.com