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Chewing the Fat Podcast with Mike Mike Kumagai
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- Maatschappij en cultuur
People are strange, but why do they do the things they do? From a uniquely New Zealand perspective, Chewing the Fat explores the weird and wonderful! Politics, art, culture and more!
Take a deep dive into the weird and wonderful, with me, Mike Kumagai! Email me at mikekumagai@gmail.com
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Rob Berg - Zionist (President of Zionist Federation of NZ)
ROB BERG is the president of the ZIONIST FEDERATION of NEW ZEALAND, a Zionist/Israel advocacy group based in New Zealand.
MIKE gets Rob's take on how/if anti-Zionism is anti-Semetic, inherent anti-Israel bias in the NZ media, a Zionist's perspective on how to achieve peace in the Middle East, whether Noam Chomsky is helpful to the Zionist cause, the challenges the movement faces, and his thoughts on Kia Ora Gaza.
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Penelope - Sex-worker and addict for 10 years
PENELOPE was a sex-worker and addicted to morphine for 10 years - part two.
EXPLICT CONTENT - we spare no details and talk about what a bi-double is, how long it took to make a client orgasm, if Penelope ever became aroused, if sex-work is empowering, what the process of becoming clean was like, hiding sex-work/addiction from family and friends, and what it's like to pick women from a menu.
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Dave Parker - Three Years Living in China
"DAVE PARKER" spent three years living and working in Mainland China.
We talk about why he has to self-censor, the abstract differences between Chinese and NZ culture, bringing his Chinese partner back to live in NZ, his take on the Peter Hughes from National Front interview, and a whole lot more.
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Quinn Menton - Post Psychedelic Existential Dissonance
QUINN MENTON shares his unique story of his first time taking psychedelic drugs and the consequences thereafter.
We chat about being detained whilst on mushrooms, reframing his existence after his drug experience, sympathising with kamikaze pilots and self-immolation, new appreciation of ‘god’, interrogating death and whether suicide is the right solution, and finding purpose and value in life after realising that there isn’t any.
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T Lamusse - No Pride in Prisons Co-founder
T LAMUSSE is the co-founder of the queer and trans prison abolitionist advocacy group, NO PRIDE IN PRISONS AOTEAROA.
MARY chats with T on the origins and foundations of the group, the state of queer/trans rights in NZ correctional facilities, why they advocate for removal of prisons, a world that’s not defined by cis-heteronormative-patriarchal-racism and if/how we should celebrate gay rights.
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Mike Ferriss (Part II) - CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY - Ins and Outs
PART TWO: CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY - The Ins and Outs
MIKE FERRISS is the secretary and spokesman for Scientology New Zealand. We talk about how much it costs to become 'clear', the Church's view on mental health, how Mike became a Scientologist, and what it's like to be their spokesperson.
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