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Best podcasts about John Banks

Latest podcast episodes about John Banks

Kerre McIvor Mornings Podcast
John MacDonald: What's so bad about ex-MPs being on local councils?

Kerre McIvor Mornings Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2025 5:34 Transcription Available


I'm starting to wonder who isn't running for mayor in Wellington. Former Labour leader Andrew Little is the latest one joining the race to oust current mayor Tory Whanau. And, just in case you think so, I'm not endorsing Andrew Little in any way, shape, or form. But I do think having former MPs on local councils is a very good thing. Because whether we like it or not, local councils cannot operate in isolation and knowing how things in Wellington work is invaluable. Andrew Little isn't the first ex-MP wanting to get into local government. Former National MP Nick Smith is the mayor of Nelson. Phil Goff was mayor of Auckland. In Christchurch, former Labour politician Lianne Dalziel was elected mayor three times. Maurice Williamson —who was a National MP and minister— is on Auckland Council these days. John Banks. The list goes on. And they don't admit it at the time, but when these ex-MPs stand for their local councils, it's not just their political experience they're banking on. They also know full well that they're making the most of apathetic voters who look for a name they know and end up voting for them. When it comes to name recognition, I reckon an ex-MP has way more chance of being successful in the job than some of the other people you see milking their name recognition to get elected to their local council. People in my game do it. In fact, it seems to me that if media people don't go on to be marriage and funeral celebrants, they go on to be a local councillor. Not that you will ever catch me doing that. Last thing I'd want to do. Sportspeople milk their name recognition too. I'm not in Tauranga and don't know all the ins-and-outs, but I think it's pretty safe to say that the reason Mahe Drysdale is the mayor of Tauranga is because of his brilliant rowing career. He's got none of this so-called “business experience” that some people think is essential for someone to be good at running a town or a city. He's got no prior political experience. He's just a name. Voters obviously thought he was a good Kiwi bloke, he's done well in his sport, so they voted for him. Not that, from what I've seen, it's been all plain sailing for him so far. I've seen a few stories with him getting heat for stuff – and that is where people's lack of political experience shows. And why I think it's a very good thing to have people former MPs on our local councils. They're not perfect —Lianne Dalziel was far from perfect— but they know what they're getting themselves into. They generally don't set the world on fire, but I don't care about that. Because, whether we like it or not, local and central government are intertwined. Local government is way more dependent on central government than it would like to admit. Especially, when they're in the schtuck. When they need to get Wellington on their side. Which is why having people as mayors and councillors who know exactly how to get the government on side —because they've been there and done that— that's why it is so beneficial. And that's why I'll take an ex-politician over an ex-media personality or an ex-sporting hero any day, when it comes to who I want to see on my local council. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Freedom Hustles Podcast
Episode 070 - Is Honesty ALWAYS The Best Policy?

Freedom Hustles Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2024 30:11


An interesting discussion slightly off topic but we do find some links to the online marketing world with this episode. Honesty, is it always the best policy? The answer may surprise you. Follow us on the other podcast platforms:

Freedom Hustles Podcast
Episode 055 - The £5 Per Day Method (Back To Basics)

Freedom Hustles Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2024 28:58


In this episode, we take it right back to basics. When starting out online you should not go for the big numbers straight away. Start off small and grow your confidence. Here we discuss the £5 per day method.

Freedom Hustles Podcast
Episode 052 - The Art Of Selling Websites And How You Should Price Them

Freedom Hustles Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2024 37:04


In this episode, we talk about the lucrative world of website ownership and pricing them up to sell. It's amazing to think that in 2024 you can sell a website for up to 30 x its monthly net worth. Name somewhere else you could invest your money for that kind of return? Reach out to connect:

Civil War Talk Radio
2013-John Banks-A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond

Civil War Talk Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2023


John Banks, author of "A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond"

Civil War Talk Radio
2013-John Banks-A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond

Civil War Talk Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2023


John Banks, author of "A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond"

Civil War Talk Radio
2013-John Banks-A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond

Civil War Talk Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2023


John Banks, author of "A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond"

Civil War Talk Radio
2013-John Banks-A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond

Civil War Talk Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2023


John Banks, author of "A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond"

Civil War Talk Radio
Civil War Talk Radio - December 6th, 2023

Civil War Talk Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2023 55:21


John Banks, A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond

Civil War Talk Radio
Civil War Talk Radio - December 6th, 2023

Civil War Talk Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2023 55:21


John Banks, A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond

CPQ Podcast
Interview with John Banks (CEO and Founder) and Sean Joyce (Head of Go-To-Market) of Continuous Technologies

CPQ Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2023 32:42


In this episode you hear from John Banks (CEO & Founder) and Sean Joyce (Head of Go-To-Market) of Continuous Technologies which have a combined 45+ years of business experience. Here they talk about usage consumption pricing models, their relationship with Salesforce, credit burndown, scaling their solution, enhancing their solution, clicks-not code, integrations/enhancements with billing systems, AI/ML and much more John Banks - Contact Info LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/banks/ email john@continuoustech.com Sean Joyce - Contact Info LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanjoyce/  email sean@continuoustech.com 

The Richard Piet Show
(Community Matters 56) BCCF CEO Search Gaining Momentum

The Richard Piet Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2023 23:25


The Battle Creek Community Foundation will find a successor for a 30-year CEO in 2024, after Brenda Hunt retires. After community listening sessions, the BCCF CEO Transition Committee has now formulated a job description and expects to interview and recommend finalists to the full board as the next steps in the process. BCCF Board Chair Linda Morrison and Transition Committee Co-Chairs Preston Hicks and John Banks discuss the search - and the notion that it's as much a chance to highlight the community as it is to find a new leader.Episode ResourcesBCCF CEO Job DescriptionBCCF CEO Executive Summary and ApplicationBCCF websiteABOUT COMMUNITY MATTERSFormer WBCK Morning Show host Richard Piet (2014-2017) returns to host Community Matters, an interview program focused on community leaders and newsmakers in and around Battle Creek. Community Matters is heard Saturdays, 8-8:30 AM Eastern on WBCK-FM (95.3) and anytime at battlecreekpodcast.com.Community Matters is sponsored by Lakeview Ford Lincoln.Battlecreekpodcast.com and The Richard Piet Show are Livemic Communications podcasts. Livemic Communications helps businesses, organizations and entrepreneurs create customized, purposeful podcast content.

Hot Topics in Kidney Health
What do clinical end points and trials mean for CKD research?

Hot Topics in Kidney Health

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2023 32:11


Clinical trials exist to help prevent, screen for, diagnose, or treat diseases and other health problems. Without them, we would not have new treatments or other advances in health and medicine. But how are the clinical trial endpoints, or the preferred outcomes of these trials determined? Today, Anthony Gucciardo NKF's Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, Dr. Joseph Vassalotti, NKF's Chief Medical Officer, and Kent Bressler, a Patient advocate and FSGS patient, discuss this and more.   In this episode we heard from:  Dr. Joseph Vassalotti MD Dr. Vassalotti is the Chief Medical Officer of the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology, at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. At NKF, his major focus is implementation of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in chronic kidney disease (CKD). He led collaborations to develop the Kidney Health Evaluation for Adults with Diabetes quality measure to improve evidenced based estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria testing to guide detection, risk stratification and interventions proportional to risk in the U.S. He also served as PI for an AARP-funded Kidney Health Evaluation for Adults with Diabetes to analyze quality measure satisfaction with detection, evidenced-based therapies and health equity. Currently, he serves as Principal Investigator for the Kidney Score Platform, an NKF educational project funded by the Veterans Administration Center for Innovation to improve awareness and education among Veterans with and at risk for CKD in the primary care setting. He is also a co-investigator for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's CKD Surveillance Project. Dr. Vassalotti typically sees approximately 40 patients per week and has over 100 publications in peerreviewed journals. Anthony Gucciardo Anthony is responsible for forging and maintaining relations with key external stakeholders across a wide range of industries, to advance NKF's mission and objectives, along with those of its partner organizations.  Anthony oversees two national Corporate Development Teams, focused on securing revenue necessary to ensure NKF programmatic excellence and impact.  He has been with the Foundation since 2002. Prior to NKF, Anthony was a Hematopoietic Stem Cell Technologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, where he was responsible for processing autogeneic/allogeneic bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cells for transplantation. He holds a master's degree in Biochemistry from Columbia University. Kent Bressler Kent is a retired RN who was diagnosed with FSGS in 1984, and received a living donor transplant from his brother Kip in 1987. Kent is an active advocate for preemptive kidney transplant and has on the recommendation of NKF worked closely with the DoD and PCORI as a consumer peer reviewer. He is an NKF peer mentor and advocate who has collaborated on an editorial “Change in Albuminuria and GFR as End Points for Clinical Trials in Early Stages of Chronic Kidney Disease,” published in AJKD in 2019. He will also be participating in the development of the new NKF Patient Network serving on the Data Input and Integration Committee. He has been an active hill advocate for the NKF for six years and was the proud recipient of the 2017 Richard K. Salick Advocacy Award. Kent is also an Army Veteran and retired from the Veterans administration as an RN. He is the co-founder of Kidney Solutions a not for profit program in Texas that assists patients and families in the transplant process and in finding a donor. He is currently an assistant team leader for Region 7. Kent and Cathy Bressler have been married for 50 years and their family consists of Gretchen and Todd Rossington and their son Colt and Celeste and Alex Brown and their children John Banks, Catherine and Alexis Brown.   Additional Resources:  Find Clinical Trials  Clinical Trial Q&A  Xenotransplantation Info    Do you have comments, questions, or suggestions? Email us at NKFpodcast@kidney.org. Also, make sure to rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts.  

Finneran's Wake
Road Trips, Twizzlers, The Civil War & College Football | John Banks

Finneran's Wake

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2023 75:31


John Banks is an author, editor, a journalist, and a Civil War aficionado. His latest book, A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime is now available for purchase! The book is a really fun travelogue-cum-history that you'll definitely want to add to your shelf. In this wide-ranging episode, John and I discuss: Being an aficionado v. being an academic; Ernest Hemingway; American Literature; Journalism; History; Writing books; Strategies to improve sleep; Road-tripping; How to fuel up for a road trip; Songs to listen to during a long drive; The Civil War; Obscure battles that we ought to know more about; Some Great Generals; Battlefield relics; Rebels and Yankees; A bunch of hypotheticals; College Football; West Virginia Mountaineers; Alabama Crimson Tide; JFK assassination theories; Lee Harvey Oswald…And MUCH more! Links to John's stuff: Purchase his book here:https://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-Road-Trip-Lifetime/dp/1734627670/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1VIYEFISNIG5C&keywords=john+banks+civil+war+road+trip&qid=1695753621&sprefix=john+banks+%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-1Twitter: https://twitter.com/johnnybanksWebsite: http://john-banks.blogspot.com/*** Links to my stuff: Check out my Instagram page for shorts from this and prior episodes: @danielethanfinneran https://www.instagram.com/danielethanfinneran/Twitter: @DanielEFinneranWebsite: finneranswake.comEmail me at finneranswake@gmail.comMy sister project, PNEUMA, on which I put out sleep stories, meditations, mindfulness content: Youtube @pneumabydanielfinneran  Pneumameditations.comBe sure to subscribe to this channel if you enjoy these conversations and share them with family and friends! 

The Leighton Smith Podcast
Leighton Smith Podcast #213 - September 27th 2023 - John Banks

The Leighton Smith Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2023 81:18


John Banks spent 21 years in Parliament. For many of those years, he held high profile ministerial portfolios. He was also a two term Mayor of Auckland. This week, he gives us his stark and honest account of NZ's current position. He concludes that the election must provide “the change of direction the country so desperately needs”. If you agree you'll enjoy the discussion. If you're happy with the status quo, you'll find out why you'll change your mind. We comment on Jacinda Ardern and censorship, and Victor Davis Hanson on the “self-induced catastrophe of the U.S. southern border” And we take you to 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 Smith's podcast also available on iTunes:To subscribe via iTunes click here See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The PlayStation Collectors Podcast
The PlayStation Collectors Podcast Episode 46 Special Guest: John Banks

The PlayStation Collectors Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2023 107:23


The PlayStation Collectors Podcast Episode 46 Special Guest: John Banks Follow John on IG: https://www.instagram.com/jbcollects/ Follow Johns Collecting YY Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@jbcollects1978 Follow Johns Side Hustle YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JohnBanks1978 You Can Now Watch The Entire Podcast On Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/show/3uKjhKw... Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxEr... To see all of my Pickups, Chat with other collectors, buy, sell games and much more join the Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/YWPcn3hdUK If the link doesn't work please ask for a new one and ill post it ASAP Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Figsy_Games-... Follow my Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/figsygames/​​​ Visit my Ebay Store, Don't Forget to Follow me on Ebay: https://www.ebay.com.au/str/figsygames -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/Figsy_Games​​​ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Figsy_Games Going For A Full PS5 Set The PlayStation Collectors Podcast Episode 10 - Special Guest: Tristan, Bad Service Game Store Painkiller Syberia Collection Game pickups monthly pickups ps1 pickups ps2 ps3 ps4 ps4 wii switch picks jordan shoes woments boots manga jeans abandoned storage units don't ignore these at estate sales estate sale estate sales Italy Italian estate sale ride along estate sale with me estate sale POV THIS AUCTION WAS FULL OF HIDDEN TREASURE! AUCTION HAUL Nostalgic PS3 Collecting garage sales finds garage sales garyvee garage sales 2022 garage sales pokemon cards garage sales mysteries movies garage sale video games garage sales and bank robberies garage sales toys garage sales froggy flips garage sales sports cards garage sale flipping garage sales shoes garage sales tips HAUL VIDEO AUCTION GO PRO auction video auction score reselling ebay haul auction with me giveaway reseller chain letter resell haul reseller reseller vlog treasure hunting treasure hunt giveaway american pickers picking auctions auction picker garage sale yard sale local auction resell video ebay video make money at auctions make money from home make money online picking froggy flips froggyflips This was the deal of a lifetime private pick private pick of my dreams i spent all my money at this garage sale vintage garage sale vintage yard sale vintage treasure It Paid to be FIRST at this GARAGE SALE garage sale yard sale garage sales yard sales garage sale ride along yard sale ride along sell on ebay bolo ebay bolo ebay seller garage sale with me garage sale body cam garage sale gopro reseller picking garage sales reselling garage sale finds for ebay yard sale finds for ebay froggy flips froggyflips picker picking yard sales treasure hunting buy and sell garage sale haul yard sale haul haul video resell haul selling american pickers picking garage sales picking yard sales reseller reseller community reselling community garage sale video yard sale video garage sale pov yard sale pov live garage sale footage garage sale with me garage sale negotiation ebay amazon PS5 Playstation 5 Demons Souls Elden Ring game play The PlayStation Collectors Podcast Episode 12 - Special Guest: James Johnson ps5 gameplay unboxing ps5 unboxing back 2 blood sniper elite 5 The PlayStation Collectors Podcast Episode slomo headshot is sniper elite 5 good

Doc's Dumb Dumb of the Day
Man Lit Bag Of Chips On Fire Thinking That's How You Make Nachos. It's Not.

Doc's Dumb Dumb of the Day

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2023 2:02


John Banks, a squatter in Austin, TX, lit a bag of chips on fire because he thought the end result would be nachos. The end result was the fire spreading to an historic building next door and causing over one million dollars in damage.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mongabay Newscast
Mongabay Reports: Monarchs make a comeback

Mongabay Newscast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2023 7:32


In 2022, the population of western monarch butterflies reached its highest number in decades, 335,000, according to the annual Western Monarch Count in California and Arizona, marking the second year in a row for a positive tally of the species numbers. While that count is celebrated by conservationists, they also point to the need to protect monarchs' overwintering sites in North America, which continue to suffer degradation and destruction each year. Read the popular article by Liz Kimbrough here: Western monarch populations reach highest number in decades Please invite your friends to subscribe to the Mongabay Newscast wherever they get podcasts from, or download our free app in the Apple App Store or in the Google Store to gain instant access to our latest episodes and past ones. If you enjoy this series, please visit www.patreon.com/mongabay to pledge a dollar or more to keep the show growing, Mongabay is a nonprofit media outlet and all support helps! See all our latest news from nature's frontline at Mongabay's homepage: news.mongabay.com or find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by searching for @mongabay. Image caption: A monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus). Image by John Banks via Pexels (Public domain). Please send feedback to submissions@mongabay.com, and thank you for listening.

Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive
John Banks on Brown's first week as mayor

Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2022 3:22


A claim Auckland's new mayor needs to get some more political allies.   Wayne Brown has had a contentious first week as mayor calling for the resignation of Eku Panuku Development chairman Paul Majurey  Auckland Transport's Board Chair resigned last Saturday night.   Brown has also been reluctant to give interviews to media.   Former Auckland City Mayor John Banks says he doesn't need to cater to journalists but told Heather du Plessis-Allan he won't be able to make change alone.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tuned In
056: Reflash or Standalone — Do We Still Need Both?

Tuned In

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2022 91:34


Just how easy is it to get 1000hp out of an Audi 4-litre? With reflashing's capabilities growing every year, will standalone ECUs ever become obsolete? And what makes someone drop their profession as a doctor to tune cars full time?All these questions and many more are answered in this week's episode of the High Peformance Academy Tuned In podcast with John Banks and Mitch McKee, the brains behind Dyno Spectrum.Use ‘PODCAST75' for $75 off your first HPA course here: https://hpcdmy.co/hpa-tuned-inDyno Spectrum is best known for its popular DS1 package for various Audi and Lamborghini platforms. It allows for easy wireless real-time reflashing of factory ECUs and includes provisions for Flexfuel, high-speed datalogging, as well as a long list of off-the-shelf maps to work with whatever level of modification a car has. Both John and Mitch have been in the game for years and bring a wealth of knowledge to this conversation. While they first met when working for Cobb reverse engineering factory ECUs, both had quite different and interesting career paths to get where they are today — especially John who, up until a few years ago, was a practising doctor who worked with automotive electronics and tuned cars after hours for fun.The conversation jumps into factory ECUs, digging deep into how they work, and why they do the things they do that at first inspection don't make a whole lot of sense. Reflashing, as you'd expect, is also covered in fascinating detail.The big question that seems to be getting harder and harder to answer is also discussed: reflash vs standalone — when do we need to ditch the factory ECU and go MoTeC, Haltech, Link, or anything else? Do we even need to at all? Follow Dyno Spectrum here:IG: @dynospectrumFB: Dyno SpectrumWWW: dynospectrum.comWant to learn how to tune EFI? Start here instantly, and for free: https://hpcdmy.co/tuneb

Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive
Heather du Plessis-Allan: Viv Beck needs to think very seriously about throwing in the towel

Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2022 2:20


I sort of hate saying this because I actually really like Viv Beck, but I do think she needs to think very seriously about throwing in the towel in the Auckland mayoral race for the sake of the city. John Banks has got a point in what he was saying in the Herald this morning. At this rate, she can't win. Her polls are slipping, her campaign is not good enough to lift those polls. All she's doing right now is splitting the vote between the two candidates on the right — herself and Wayne Brown — and ensuring Efeso Collins on the left gets into the mayoralty. Have you seen Efeso Collins' policies? Are you sure this is the guy you want as the mayor of Auckland? There are three things I worry about: 1. He supports giving a lane on the Harbour Bridge to cyclists. Permanently. That's gonna screw the traffic coming in from the North Shore big time when it's already screwed up enough. 2. He supports building another harbour crossing that doesn't allow cars on it. So just for the climate friendly transport. That's not very smart for a city as jammed up as Auckland. 3. He supports light rail. Light rail is one of the dumbest transport ideas in its current design. It's gonna cost us $30 billion. Complete waste of money. Collins is basically a Labour guy just repeating the same stuff from the Labour guys in the Beehive. So we might end up voting them out this time next year, but we're still going to be stuck with their ridiculous ideas about transport in our biggest city because their guy Efeso Collins is the mayor. One of the two candidates on the right needs to stand down and give the other one a fighting chance. Viv's polling is lower, which is why she probably needs to stand down. She's on 12.5 percent on the latest Ratepayers Alliance Curia poll. Wayne Brown is on quite a bit more on 18.6 percent, Efeso Collins is on 22.3 percent, but apparently he is a bit stuck in the mid-twenties, so he is beatable. Leo Molloy pulled out last week to stop Efeso's policies becoming reality. You can't have Leo being more grown up than Viv here so she needs to do the same. The worst thing for her to do would be to split the vote to ensure Efeso Collins wins and condemn Auckland to another three years of this nonsense. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive
Viv Beck: Auckland mayoral candidate says she's adamant she isn't going anywhere

Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2022 3:50


An Auckland Mayoral candidate says she isn't going anywhere. Former Auckland City mayor John Banks is calling on the business leader to throw in the towel to avoid splitting the vote with Wayne Brown. Beck's poll ratings have slumped from 20 percent in June to 12.5 per cent in last Friday's Ratepayers' Alliance-Curia poll, behind Brown and Councillor Efeso Collins. Viv Beck was asked by Heather Du Plessis Allan whether she will drop out to give Wayne Brown a chance. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive
Andrew Dickens: Let the cops do their job and tell us what they need

Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2022 4:10


Let's talk about crime, because all the politicians are as they often do as election time approaches.Nothing unnerves an electorate like a crime wave and the party that seems the toughest to fight a crime threat gets a boost in the polls.Right now National and ACT are running the line that Labour is soft on crime.Yesterday, Chris Hipkins the Police Minister reiterated that the tough on crime rhetoric is exactly that, rhetoric.This morning Mark Mitchell said that Hipkins refusal to say whether they are either tough or soft on crime is evidence that they are in fact soft on crime.So today, Labour has unveiled what they call a gang crackdown.It's a spruce up of the rules.  Toughening some, closing loopholes, plugging gaps.The overwhelming feeling I had was that I couldn't believe that some of these new offences weren't already offences.Previously under the Crimes Act the crime of threatening with a firearm only applied if you were inside the same house as the good folk you were threatening.So driving by and shooting at a house to give the occupants a tickle up was never an offence.It's astounding.  You then have to ask yourself how many administrations that claimed to be tough on crime missed this one. John Banks missed it, Muldoon missed it, National missed it and Labour missed itAnd because all these amendments were hiding in plain sight it makes you wonder whether Hipkins asked the police to have a hunt and find some stuff that sounds tough.It's called virtue signalling. It's politiciking. Sounds tough, but changes little.  Much like Simon Bridges swaggering around with his Strike Force Raptor idea.And that's the great problem with the debate on law and order.  The grandstanding and the exaggeration from politicians with no idea on frontline policing.Are we in a crime wave?  Serious crimes stats are actually down. However, we did have a gang war between two gangs which ended out in 23 houses being shot.Is that an explosion of gun violence on the streets as Christopher Luxon told his London audience last week?Did our post terrorist attack gun laws fail? Well no houses got shot with an AR15 or any other military style semi-automatic. It mostly your common or garden shotgun and the odd high-power hunting rifleI feel this rhetoric that the police are soft on crime repeated over and over again by oppositions politicians and commentators for their own popularity is actually doing more damage to the mana of the police than any government's policies.I'd rather we let the cops doing their job and tell us what they need. They're the professionalsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mi'kmaq Matters
Episode 181: Hydro Quebec's "Clean Power" is a Green Lie Say Land Defenders

Mi'kmaq Matters

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2021 30:03


One of the biggest political issues in Maine these days is a bid by Hydro Quebec to push a corridor through pristine wilderness to carry power across the state to Massachusetts. Land defenders say Hydro Quebec's billing of the corridor as "clean power" is a green lie, evidenced by the impact on Indigenous people in Labrador in Quebec. This week, we speak with John Banks of the Penobscot Nation and Becky Bartovics of Sierra Club Maine about the impact of this corridor on the land, and the ways in which land defenders based in the U.S. are supporting Innu in their bid for Churchill Falls hydro compensation.

The Draft Day Show
“Part2/Oxymoron”

The Draft Day Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2021 49:29


In this episode I had an awesome time discussing a very important issue with my bro's Tory Hayes and John Banks. We gave it the strange title because people don't usually release a part 2 before they obviously release the first one. But felt this episode needed to be released first: Tory gives a great understanding of the “Creator” while John gives an awesome testimony. Pray you're blessed!

The Fold
Vodafone CEO Jason Paris on ethical advertising and the Magic Talk saga

The Fold

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2021 36:26


This week on The Fold, Duncan Greive talks to Jason Paris, Vodafone's CEO.After pulling their advertising from Magic Talk in the wake of John Banks' racist comments airing, Vodafone developed an entire policy for ethical advertising. Their CEO Jason Paris tells Duncan Greive about that decision and how it happened so quickly, as well as their new-ish policy on honouring the Treaty.He and Duncan also talk about the 5G rollout and what it will actually mean for most people, and how Vodafone TV is simplifying the streaming experience. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Freedom Hustles Podcast
Episode 031 - How To Research & Create ANYTHING Online

Freedom Hustles Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2021 35:37


This episode is all about research and more importantly how you can research anything online and create something from it. We talk about various tools including Keywords Anywhere - which is an insanely cheap keyword tool Chrome Extension. Well worth checking out plus the others we mention. Thanks for stopping by.

The Fold
Cam Wallace on his first three months as MediaWorks CEO

The Fold

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2021 36:18


In this edition of The Spinoff's media podcast The Fold, Duncan Greive talks to Cam Wallace, MediaWorks' CEO about Magic Talk, The Rock and the future of commercial radio. Cam Wallace worked at Air New Zealand for almost two decades before he left last year amid the turmoil of Covid and all it brought upon the travel industry. Just months later as ex-MediaWorks CEO Michael Anderson announced his departure from the role, Wallace was revealed to be the next-in-line.Just three months into his new job, Wallace has already made some waves in the company, kicking John Banks off air after Banks made racist comments on Magic Talk and now dealing with allegations of sexual abuse made against workers at various stations under MediaWorks.He talked to Duncan Greive about his move into media and how radio just keeps surviving, this week on The Fold. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Wireless Westray
Ep 21 - 1983 Baptist Social Part 2

Wireless Westray

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2021 39:44


This week's episode is part 2 of our blast from the past and a bit of Westray musical heritage. In part 2 we have more choir music and duets, some songs from the 'youngeens' in 1983, and a poem from the minister.Many thanks to John Banks for extracting the recording of the February 1983 Baptist Social from a cassette tape so that we could share it with you today. Please bear in mind that it is a 'home recording' from 1983 so the audio isn't as clear as we can manage in 2021 and it does jump a little but that just adds to the retro feel! If you have any old recordings you think we should share please get in touch. Enjoy!Speakers: Isobel Thompson (2021), Ailsa Seatter (2021), and Jim Brown (1983).

Wireless Westray
Ep 19 - 1983 Baptist Social Part 1

Wireless Westray

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2021 29:20


This week's episode is a blast from the past and a bit of Westray musical heritage. Many thanks to John Banks for extracting the recording of the February 1983 Baptist Social from a cassette tape so that we could share it with you today. Please bear in mind that it is a 'home recording' from 1983 so the audio isn't as clear as we can manage in 2021 and it does jump a little but that just adds to the retro feel! If you have any old recordings you think we should share please get in touch. Enjoy!Speakers: Isobel Thompson (2021), Ailsa Seatter (2021) and Jim Brown (1983).

Freedom Hustles Podcast
Episode 026 - The Three Different Types Of Website Traffic (& Why You Should ALWAYS Aim For The 3rd)

Freedom Hustles Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2021 34:16


In this episode, we will go over the three different types of website traffic that you can get when you own a website or product online. Essentially it is broken up into three stages. 1 - Free Traffic 2 - Paid Traffic 3 - Traffic You Own We will discuss all three options and why you should always be aiming for stage three. #webtraffic​ #websitetraffic​ #freetraffic

Mediawatch
Telco unveils ethical advertising policy amid talkback turmoil

Mediawatch

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2021 14:47


Vodafone was quick to pull advertising from Magic Talk after a recent racist outburst sparked outrage. Now it's gone further, launching an Ethical Advertising Policy, described by one media outlet as as a “blacklist of hateful media”. How will it work? And is it a contradiction for a company supposedly all about connectivity?

RNZ: Mediawatch
Telco unveils ethical advertising policy amid talkback turmoil

RNZ: Mediawatch

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2021 14:47


Vodafone was quick to pull advertising from Magic Talk after a recent racist outburst sparked outrage. Now it’s gone further, launching an Ethical Advertising Policy, described by one media outlet as as a “blacklist of hateful media”. How will it work? And is it a contradiction for a company supposedly all about connectivity?

Freedom Hustles Podcast
Episode 025 - 10 Ways To Make Money From Your Website

Freedom Hustles Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2021 31:26


In this episode, we will outline 10 ways to make money from your website. It is not only Adsense that can earn you an income stream from owning a website. There are many ways, more than ten in fact. But, we have squeezed in ten ways and covered them in detail to get you thinking. How do you monetize your website?

Mediawatch
Midweek Mediawatch - talk radio turmoil

Mediawatch

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2021 19:10


Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately. This week Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about another host leaving the troubled network Magic Talk after John Banks' recent dumping - while another spread doubts and misinformation about Covid vaccines on air this in the week Facebook finally banned anti-vax misinformation.

RNZ: Mediawatch
Midweek Mediawatch - talk radio turmoil

RNZ: Mediawatch

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2021 19:10


Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately. This week Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about another host leaving the troubled network Magic Talk after John Banks' recent dumping - while another spread doubts and misinformation about Covid vaccines on air this in the week Facebook finally banned anti-vax misinformation.

Mediawatch
Talkback toxicity problem bigger than Banks, say critics

Mediawatch

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2021 8:24


After the sacking of John Banks for racist blurts on air last week, critics are questioning the health of today's talkback radio. It pulls a crowd and airs important issues, but can the bosses and the staff, the listeners and the advertisers still stomach the trolling that's now part of the mix?

RNZ: Mediawatch
Talkback toxicity problem bigger than Banks, say critics

RNZ: Mediawatch

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2021 8:24


After the sacking of John Banks for racist blurts on air last week, critics are questioning the health of today’s talkback radio. It pulls a crowd and airs important issues, but can the bosses and the staff, the listeners and the advertisers still stomach the trolling that’s now part of the mix?

Freedom Hustles Podcast
Episode 24 - The Importance Of Split Testing & Why You Have To Do It

Freedom Hustles Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2021 25:45


In this episode, we talk about split testing for your online business. It doesn't matter if you build websites, if you run a blog, if you sell on eBay, if you run a YouTube channel, if you write an email newsletter - whatever it is you do online you really have to split test everything. We discuss the many testing strategies for your projects and how you can get started.

RNZ: Nine To Noon
Media commentator Andrew Holden

RNZ: Nine To Noon

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2021 9:59


Andrew tells where he thinks the responsibility lies for the Magic Talk radio racist debacle involving John Banks.

RNZ: Nine To Noon
Media commentator Andrew Holden

RNZ: Nine To Noon

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2021 9:59


Andrew tells where he thinks the responsibility lies for the Magic Talk radio racist debacle involving John Banks.

Mediawatch
Mediawatch for 31 January 2021

Mediawatch

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2021 39:04


The story of a strange summer (so far); John Banks booted often racist blurts - and the talk radio dilemma; housing coverage highlights homeowners - not the 'have-nots; Rātana gives politicians and media a swerve.

RNZ: Sunday Morning
Mediawatch for 31 January 2021

RNZ: Sunday Morning

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2021 39:04


The story of a strange summer (so far); John Banks booted often racist blurts - and the talk radio dilemma; housing coverage highlights homeowners - not the 'have-nots; Rātana gives politicians and media a swerve.

RNZ: Sunday Morning
Mediawatch for 31 January 2021

RNZ: Sunday Morning

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2021 39:04


The story of a strange summer (so far); John Banks booted often racist blurts - and the talk radio dilemma; housing coverage highlights homeowners - not the 'have-nots; Rātana gives politicians and media a swerve.

RNZ: Mediawatch
Mediawatch for 31 January 2021

RNZ: Mediawatch

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2021 39:04


The story of a strange summer (so far); John Banks booted often racist blurts - and the talk radio dilemma; housing coverage highlights homeowners - not the 'have-nots; Rātana gives politicians and media a swerve.

Mai Morning Crew Catchup Podcast
Mai Morning Crew Catchup - 28th of January 2021

Mai Morning Crew Catchup Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2021 62:21


Today on the show we spoke to Jack Harlow and we had to address the situation with John Banks.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Freedom Hustles Podcast
Episode 023 - How To find Client Work And Why You Should Not Turn It Down

Freedom Hustles Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2021 29:09


In this episode, we discuss how to find client work and reasons why you should do client work. Especially in the early days of your online career. Reasons include. You get much need practice to help master your skill set. Build up an important portfolio of work. Raise money to fund your business. Get important testimonials to prove that you can do what you say you can. They lead to more client work.

RNZ: The Panel
The Panel with Niki Bezzant and Chris Wikaira (Part 1)

RNZ: The Panel

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2021 23:25


The two new cases of Covid-19 identified in the Auckland community last night are the South African variant which is more infectious. The Panel speaks to Professor Michael Plank from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and Principal Investigator at Te Pūnaha Matatini about the latest developments. Rents soared after the Government's restriction on rental increases in response to Covid-19 was lifted last year. The Panel speaks to Murdoch Stephens, author of Rat King Landlord, for his response. MediaWorks has axed fill-in Magic Talk host John Banks over comments he and a listener made about Māori. The panellists share their views on the situation.

Mediawatch
Banks' blurts bring boot from broadcaster

Mediawatch

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2021 12:00


MediaWorks has replaced former politician John Banks as a talkback host and apologised for his comments condemning "stone age" Maori culture and warning "these people will be coming through your bathroom window." But there was plenty more in his programme to offend listeners and alarm advertisers.

Mediawatch
Coy candidates playing the media

Mediawatch

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2019 10:21


Prospective politicians with hired hands from PR are flying kites in the media before committing to a campaign. Candidates running for office should be covered as news but can the media avoid being used for political publicity and market research?