Today I talk a bit about a car accident that my sister was recently in. It’s a good reminder that people who live a far way from home—or overseas—have to be prepared for this kind of thing. Although many don’t think about it, they should. I’m now planning on talking about comments from only the past two weeks.

Links for this episode:

The blog post I wrote about this, also called “The Tyranny of Distance”

The Democratic Party-sponsored site on possible Republican VP candidates: The Next Cheney

The Democrats’ site where US Citizens living overseas can go to sign up to vote is called VoteFromAbroad.org

The BBC Panorama programme I mentioned on Episode 105 is “Daylight Robery”

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AmeriNZ 106 - The Tyranny of Distance [ 29:28 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today’s snack-sized episode begins with the final national anthem, that of the Faroe Islands because today is Ólavsøka. While I don’t speak Faroese, I see some similarity with other languages. So: How many other podcasters do YOU know who’ve mentioned Grimm’s Law? By the way, the title of this episode is in correct on my site, but the server doesn’t allow anything but basic characters in the MP3 filename. How rude!

The rest of this episode I update a few things, like a weather bomb that hit New Zealand this past weekend. Weather was bad, but we still did a few things. Comments let me expand on some of the things I said before, and add some new things.

Be sure to visit Kim Beaver’s Lodge!

Be back on Friday with another political podcast with Jason. There’ll be a special announcement, too.

AmeriNZ 104 - Góða Ólavsøku [ 24:07 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I have a cold, but I tried to edit this so it makes more sense. Sometimes I succeeded.

I begin with a brief history update, then I tell you about an evening Nigel and I had recently. For the main topic today, I tell you about life in a place with a political and economic system that’s different from my homeland’s. New Zealand has a parliamentary democracy and it’s a social democracy. I know that some of my fellow Americans would hate the idea of either, but other country’s ways aren’t necessarily worse or wrong. There are some aspects to New Zealand that even the rightest-of-right Americans would approve of.

My next political discussion with Jason will be posted on Friday, August 1 (NZ time). If you have any questions or topics you’d like us to discuss, please send them to Arthur(at]amerinzpodcast.com in the next few days.

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AmeriNZ 103 - Different ways [ 23:31 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

100 episodes! I commemorate the day by not commemorating it: Today is just a normal episode.

So today I tell you about Australia banning t-shirts that may annoy Catholics (it’s nothing new). This sort of thing doesn’t really happen in New Zealand. Petrol may get a whole lot more expensive. Big surprise, I know. I then provide some gout advice. Then it’s on to phone messages and written comments. I even talk a bit about trying vegetarianism for one day.

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AmeriNZ 100 - 100 Not Out [ 30:06 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today’s episode is just me: I tell you about something I got in the mail, something about the new home of my podcast (amerinzpodcast.com), then it’s on to the comments I haven’t had time for lately.

Today’s episode starts with another country’s national anthem; what country is it? This will be my feature for July. And speaking of July features, today I also continue a shorter episode on Tuesday.

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AmeriNZ 99 - Just Me [ 20:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download