Episode 47 is now available. You can listen to it or download it through the player at the bottom of this post, or subscribe for free through iTunes here (you must have the free iTunes player installed). You can also listen to it for free through the player on my MySpace page.

I’d planned a special episode for today, but it didn’t happen, and it’s evidence of how hard it is for me to arrange a Skype conference with people in North America. So, it’s just an ordinary episode today. Still, I had my first voicemail message!

I tell you about the upcoming podcast schedule. Episode 50 will be on Friday, November 2 (the day before in North America), which will be a very special day for other reasons. You can leave a message about that on my new listener comment line (206-339-8413), or you can email an MP3 file to me at amerinz(at]podomatic.com.

The NZ Prime Minister is about to reshuffle her cabinet, and I tell you a little about that, and about hw a gay Minister might be promoted. I explain what it means in American terms, and then I talk a bit about the upcoming US elections and how I’m able to vote in them.

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Episode 46 is now available. You can listen to it or download it through the player at the bottom of this post, or subscribe for free through iTunes here (you must have the free iTunes player installed). You can also listen to it for free through the player on my MySpace page.

This week is an upside down episode as I go over comments first. That’s because of the feedback I got about continuing my podcast. I AM continuing, by the way. After that, it’s on to a discussion of our Labour Holiday weekend and some of the things we got up to. I have some interesting guests coming up in the next few weeks, beginning the end of this week or next week. Have a topic you want to hear about? Let me know. Leave a comment or send an email to me at amerinz[at)yahoo,com (if you put “comment” in the subject line, I’ll know to read it on the podcast.

Breaking News: I now have a listener line! Feel free to call and leave a comment on (206) 339-8413 (located in Washington state, USA).

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Episode 45 is now available. You can listen to it or download it through the player at the bottom of this post, or subscribe for free through iTunes here (you must have the free iTunes player installed). You can also listen to it for free through the player on my MySpace page.

I don’t normally have podcast shownotes as consecutive blog posts, but I’ve been busy this week.

Anyway, it’s a mixed bag today, starting with my second “carcast” (the first was AmeriNZ #25, if you want to know). I give you some updates to Tuesday’s episode, then it’s a bit of a rant about bad customer service, and then I share some of my recent thinking about the podcast. From there it’s back in the “studio” as I share five things you don’t know about me (and challenge other podcasters to do the same—about them, of course) and then I go over comments.

Mentioned in this episode (thanks to Nancy):
Brockovich forces NZ firm to drop ‘sexist’ ad

NZ brewery offers beer for laptop

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Episode 42 is now available. You can listen to it or download it through the player at the bottom of this post, or subscribe for free through iTunes here (you must have the free iTunes player installed). You can also listen to it for free through the player on my MySpace page.

I begin today by jokingly talking about changing my podcast’s name to get higher in rankings (yes, I was kidding…).

I’m tired. The clocks have changed, which I say is unrelated. Still, things are going well. Mainly, today I talk about ENDA, compromise with conservatives, and troubles within America’s fundie right wing. I tell you a little more about my past, as well as my political beliefs.

The rest of this episode is apparently the Eric Cast, sort of, as I talk about our war, uh rivalry, uh fellow podcastship-ness. Or whatever. Maybe I’m just tired. Comments let me comment, too. There might not be a podcast on Friday. I’ve now passed six months of podcasting.

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Episode 41 is now available. You can listen to it or download it through the player at the bottom of this post, or subscribe for free through iTunes here (you must have the free iTunes player installed). You can also listen to it for free through the player on my MySpace page.

Today was a beautiful sunny Saturday afternoon, and I put together a short podcast to keep up with things. First up it’s a brief look at Dominion Day and the evolution of New Zealand from colony to country. Bush’s bonehead promise to veto S-Chip leads me into a short talk abut healthcare in New Zealand. Then it’s comments and a new Frappr Mappr. Shownotes with links at my blog,

This past week New Zealand had its sort-of birthday. Dominion Day was Wednesday the 26th and marks the date 100 years agao when NZ became a dominion, not a colony. New Zealand now steers a pretty independent course.

One day, New Zealand will become a republic, as the leaders or all the main parties agree.

I added a poll here on my blog asking which, if any, of the NZ authors listed you’ve actually read. You don’t need to have FINISHED what you were reading, just started it. If you haven’t read any of them, put that.

This week I heard in the news that Bush has promised to veto the extension of the S-CHIP insurance programme. Yet another example of why that man is an idiot. One month of the spending on his Iraq war would more than fund S-CHIP.

Here in New Zealand, no one needs to go without healthcare, and no one will ever be bankrupted because they get sick or have an accident.

Also: 6 die from brain-eating amoeba in lakes

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Episode 40 is now available. You can listen to it or download it through the player at the bottom of this post, or subscribe for free through iTunes here (you must have the free iTunes player installed). You can also listen to it for free through the player on my MySpace page.

I’m FINALLY back, after no Internet access and some other barriers to podcasting. I talk about that first. Then, after a few things going on around here, it’s on to some things in the news–climate change, wacky christians and indigenous rights. The issues just keep coming! After comments, it’s a couple things leftover from epsiode 39. If you’d like to comment by email send it to me at amerinz(at]yahoo.com and put “Comment” in the subject line so I’ll know to read it on the podcast.

Mentioned in this episode:

NZ Emissions trading system announced

UN resolution on indigenous rights and also “NZ indigenous rights stance ‘shameful’ – Maori Party”

Confessions of a Southern Boy In Yankee Land

PodcastSoup.net

ArcherRadio YouTube Channel

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