# The Weekly Hoon: Winston's Trumpism; Climate solutions, Trump's Armada & Iran's tragedy

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Podcast: [The Hoon](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hoon-6684157)
Published: 2026-01-29T17:14:41+00:00
Episode link: https://thekaka.substack.com/p/the-weekly-hoon-winstons-trumpism
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The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer and Robert Patman , along with special guest historian and author Jonathan Lyons . We talked about: * Likely issues in Election 2026 due on November 7, including anti-migration comments from Winston Peters and his comments backing Donald Trump on withdrawing from the World Health Organisation; * The dramas this week in Global Financial Markets around the reserve currency status of the US dollar and another stalling in the New Zealand economy; * The fallout from this month’s extraordinary weather events made worse by unaddressed climate change, and some solutions, including this EECA report on shifting power demand off-peak and this Manu Caddie post ; * Donald Trump’s latest threats to attack Iran, along with the history of revolutions in Iran and the situation there now, including Jonathan and Robert. Jonathan has written these books on Iran: The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization , and, Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism . The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded on Thursday night during a live webinar for over 200 paying subscribers and was produced and edited by Simon Josey. The Hoon won the silver award for best current affairs podcast in last year’s New Zealand Podcast awards. (This is a sampler for all free subscribers and anyone else who stumbles on it. Thanks to the support of paying subscribers here, we’re able to spread my public interest journalism here about housing affordability, climate change and poverty reduction other public venues. Join the community supporting and contributing to this work with your ideas, fee…

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