#guyonespiner — Public Fediverse posts
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"We've had 4 or 5 decades... of an economic system that says 'don't worry about concentration of wealth, eventually that will flow down, everyone will be better off', and a lot of people are going, '... that's not what we're experiencing, the cost of living is getting more, we're feeling more marginalised economically, our jobs are less secure', and they want something different"
#ChrisHipkins, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner?share=529f222f-cd18-45ae-9a52-39bfda42b320
Bang on, but ...
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"I think the Green Party in Britain has adopted your wealth tax policy. But the centre-left Labour Party is not going to do that, are they."
#GuyonEspiner, 2025
I don't want to pick on Guyon, but this is a classic example of news media defining 'centre-left' as 'whatever the largest liberal party says at any given time'. You'd think the NZ Labour of the 1980s would have showed them that's not a meaningful way to define it.
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"Not that commercial. I think it used to drive the record companies crazy, and I think that's why I never really fit in, in the music industry."
#DonMcGlashan, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/30-with-guyon-espiner/story/2019016171/don-mcglashan
Intriguing! Because as a teenager I perceived McGlashan's band The Muttonbirds as quintessentially commercial pop music. Right up there with Crowded House, some of whom also came from an avantgarde background (Split Enz), and who also had some quirky songs (Chocolate Cake).
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Listening to Guyon Espiner interviewing John Kirwan about his work as a mental health champion;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner?share=62b1152d-ab4d-4702-bbc4-e73847232c9f
He talks about avoiding mental health care, because One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was his model for what it was like. That wasn't far off the mark in NZ, even into the 1980s, and in some parts of the country, well into the 90s/ 2000s.
But that enduring cultural image of mental health care is a double-edged sword.
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"If I'm really frank, for me [capitalism is] a growth in society in which wealth is accumulated in particular at the top, and less so at the bottom, and it depends on the theory of that wealth being redistributed through ... trickle-down ... It's also a way that our society - probably quite recently - has swung more towards."
#BarbaraEdmonds, #NZLabour finance spokesperson, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner?share=a2e309c8-38d9-4597-b028-855766e58d9f
Video here:
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"Do you welcome our new 'AI' overlords?"
"[Laughs] I do. I feel like 'AI' will inevitably reach a point where it can, maybe, solve some of these intractable cultural issues. And, make people feel seen and heard enough that they don't, you know, vote for Trump and storm the Capitol."
#RNZ #30, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner?share=619270c5-d346-45d4-9115-186e0ef42b5e
This is *comedy*! I am in critical danger of busting a gut laughing. Of course, when they say "AI" I'm hearing "#MOLE Training" 🤣
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"The five things that you really need in order to grow mass amounts of foods [are], you need capital to pay for the entire production cycle; you need phosphates; nitrogen and potash to fertilise the crops.
Those only come from a few places. And you need a huge amount of petroleum for the fuel, and to bulwark the other additives, things like pesticides."
#PeterZeihan, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/30-with-guyon-espiner/story/2018942492/peter-zeihan-why-china-s-days-are-numbered -
Hearing the Disorder folks talking about how kleptocracy works, right after listening to Guyon Espiner's 30 interview with Taxpayers Union and Free Speech Union founder Jordan Williams;
...is fascinating and a little frightening.
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Hearing the Disorder folks talking about how kleptocracy works, right after listening to Guyon Espiner's 30 interview with Taxpayers Union and Free Speech Union founder Jordan Williams;
...is fascinating and a little frightening.
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Hearing the Disorder folks talking about how kleptocracy works, right after listening to Guyon Espiner's 30 interview with Taxpayers Union and Free Speech Union founder Jordan Williams;
...is fascinating and a little frightening.
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Hearing the Disorder folks talking about how kleptocracy works, right after listening to Guyon Espiner's 30 interview with Taxpayers Union and Free Speech Union founder Jordan Williams;
...is fascinating and a little frightening.
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#GuyonEspiner: "You'd hoped for a majority in 2002. The polls said it was possible."
#HelenClark: "I think with MMP it was probably never realistic. Whatever the polls said... kiwis in the end quite like the government not having it all it's own way, having to talk with others..."
May 2017
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-9th-floor/story/201842639/the-commander-helen-clarkEgg on your face Helen.
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"[Mike Moore] would eventually rise to lead the WTO - the highest international position ever held by a NZer - and a respected champion of globalisation."
#GuyonEspiner, 2017
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-9th-floor/story/201840181/the-trader-mike-mooreEven in 2017, "respected champion of globalisation" was an oxymoron. I'd argue that even then, Helen Clark's tenure as head of the United Nations Development Programme was a more respectable position.
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When I say the right will always win a campaign based on fear of the Other, this was discussed on a recent edition of the RNZ Caucus program:
"I wonder whether Labour is going to go for the fear factor now... I think they'll really ratchet that up... the fear of the ACT government."
#GuyonEspiner, 2023
This was the Clinton campaign strategy. It didn't work. Demonising the opposing candidate just made him seem more threatening and more powerful, boosting his vote.
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WTF?!?
"The Cell Buster, made by American company Sabre and marketed under the tagline Making Grown Men Cry Since 1975, involves hosing pepper spray into a closed cell to incapacitate the inmate.
It was used multiple times against Mihi Bassett and Karma Cripps at Auckland Women's Prison in 2019 in what the District Court earlier ruled was cruel and degrading treatment designed to break their spirit."
#GuyonEspiner, 2022
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@ryancrawcour This morning I listened to Guyon Espiner's interview with Luxon for RNZ. Very slick. We may have another Teflon John on our hands ;)