285 episodes

After 33 years behind the Newstalk ZB microphone, Leighton can’t give it up completely. There were so many requests to continue his opinionated commentary that the prospect of podcasting was born.

So, without restriction, Leighton continues to serve up on everything you want to hear about and some things you don’t. Stand by to be enlightened, educated and enraged!

The Leighton Smith Podcast Newstalk ZB

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After 33 years behind the Newstalk ZB microphone, Leighton can’t give it up completely. There were so many requests to continue his opinionated commentary that the prospect of podcasting was born.

So, without restriction, Leighton continues to serve up on everything you want to hear about and some things you don’t. Stand by to be enlightened, educated and enraged!

    Leighton Smith Podcast - Best Of: Dr Tim Ball - June 26th 2024

    Leighton Smith Podcast - Best Of: Dr Tim Ball - June 26th 2024

    Leighton is off this week, so we are highlighting one of his favourite guests from the podcast.
    Dr Tim Ball Part 2 on the politics behind the climate change alarmism.
    As I have said so often, there is new information almost every day, some of it vital. However, it rarely appears in the mainstream media.
    Two examples since I spoke with Dr Ball. On September 6, the Secretary General of the World Meteorological Society says he does not accept arguments of climate alarmists that the end of the world is at hand.
    Then with no connection to the above, Stanford University’s Dr Patrick Frank published a peer reviewed paper that demonstrates that climate models have no predictive value.
    Tim Ball is again the whole podcast.
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    • 1 hr 3 min
    Leighton Smith Podcast #244 - June 19th 2024 - Jodie Bruning

    Leighton Smith Podcast #244 - June 19th 2024 - Jodie Bruning

    Sociologist Jodie Bruning has produced a paper, ‘Don’t Be Mislead - Judging the Risk From Central Bank Digital Currencies in Isolation is a Rookie Mistake’.
    That paper is associated with a much bigger, ninety page production, regarding democratic risks that arise when Digital ID’s are coupled with CBDC's.
    It’s an area where most of us are ill-informed, which if concerned about your personal sovereignty we should not be.
    This is an important issue for all of us.
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    • 1 hr 8 min
    Leighton Smith Podcast #243 - June 12th 2024 - Guy Hatchard

    Leighton Smith Podcast #243 - June 12th 2024 - Guy Hatchard

    The New York Times, the UK Daily Telegraph and the British Medical Journal are just some (if not the most prominent) publications to adjust their thinking and publication regarding the effect of Covid vaccinations.
    Guy Hatchard of the Hatchard Report has been one step ahead. It’s a fascinating and informative interview, especially considering what is yet to come.
    We reference David Bell’s “Bird Flu, Fear, and Perverse Incentives”, and we visit The Mailroom with Mrs Producer.
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    • 1 hr 36 min
    Leighton Smith Podcast #242 - June 5th 2024 - Oliver Hartwitch

    Leighton Smith Podcast #242 - June 5th 2024 - Oliver Hartwitch

    Oliver Hartwitch, from The New Zealand Initiative, discusses the 2024 Budget and why it might take fifteen years to get the New Zealand economy to where it should be.
    We look at what Switzerland could teach us, the future of the Tory Party in England, and the Reserve Bank.
    We make comment on Trump and “The Lost Generation” a 2009 article in which a psychologist predicted today’s issues.
    And we visit The Mailroom with Mrs Producer.
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    • 1 hr 37 min
    Leighton Smith Podcast #241 - May 29th 2024 - Manisha Granula and A.I.Fabler

    Leighton Smith Podcast #241 - May 29th 2024 - Manisha Granula and A.I.Fabler

    Manisha Grazula is not just a primary school principal and teacher. She is extraordinary in that role.
    The changes she has wrought in her school in Liverpool, Sydney make for an ideal model for almost any school in NZ.
    And the return of NZ author A.I.Fabler after the one hour twenty mark, with talk on his book “AGENDA 2060 Book Two, AI and the View from Outer Space”.
    This is the future as it happens, a world where Artificial Intelligence and space travel are about to change lives forever.
    We make further comment on Digital ID’s, CBDC’s and the WHO.
    And we visit The Mailroom with Mrs Producer.
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    • 2 hrs 4 min
    Leighton Smith Podcast #240 - May 22nd 2024 - Muriel Newman

    Leighton Smith Podcast #240 - May 22nd 2024 - Muriel Newman

    Muriel Newman and her organisation NZCPR (New Zealand Centre for Political Research) have a long standing campaign to prevent a tribal takeover of NZ’s foreshore and seabed.
    With Muriel, we cover the danger to the governance of NZ ie, the Marine & Coastal Area Act, a common electoral role, media, radicalisation and its growth and the danger of a return to the Dark Ages.
    Share 240 with as many as you can.
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    • 50 min

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