{"podcast":{"title":"The Hoon","slug":"the-hoon-6684157","podcast_index_feed_id":6684157,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/102473/s/18499.rss","website_url":"https://thekaka.substack.com/s/hoons","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/102473/s/18499/5a77ee184097a3059717adbfeb36cf87.jpg","author":"Bernard Hickey","episode_count":217,"summary":"Bernard Hickey's discussions about the political economy in Aotearoa-NZ and in geo-politics, including issues around housing affordability, climate change inaction and child poverty reduction.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T06:20:17.555092+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hoon-6684157"},"episode":{"title":"The Weekly Hoon: An amazing SpaceX IPO; NZ's $6.5b emissions credits bill; Auckland's de-intensification & Labour's fare cap policy","slug":"the-weekly-hoon-an-amazing-spacex-ipo-nz-s-6-5b-emissions-credits-bill-auckland-s-de-intensification-labour-s-fare-cap-policy","published_at":"2026-06-11T18:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hoon-6684157/the-weekly-hoon-an-amazing-spacex-ipo-nz-s-6-5b-emissions-credits-bill-auckland-s-de-intensification-labour-s-fare-cap-policy","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hoon-6684157","url":"https://thekaka.substack.com/p/the-weekly-hoon-an-amazing-spacex","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201631498/32ae17e6d6ae70bb3fcf47893d3687de.mp3","summary":"The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey talking with regular guest Cathrine Dyer from Wellington about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics. This edition also included discussions with special guests: * BusinessDesk-$ podcaster and Listener tech columnist Peter Griffin on SpaceX ’s float and what it means for RocketLab; and, * Former NZ Herald-$ columnist and former Metro , Cuisine & Consumer magazine Editor Simon Wilson on Auckland Council ’s housing de-intensification vote and Labour ’s $20 fare cap policy this week. Simon has just launched his substack; Hopetown by Simon Wilson . I highly recommend subscribing. This week: * Bernard and Peter began the show with their three news items of the week, including Peter pointing to the Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swann scoop in the New York Times-$ ( gift link ) about Donald Trump’s Epstein files mess and Bernard pointing to the self-firing of CBS’ 60 Minutes host Scott Palley. * Bernard, Peter and Cathrine talked about Treasury ’s advice to the Government that it might have to buy up to $6.5 billion worth of climate emissions credits on onshore markets or from other Governments because New Zealand is on track to miss its Paris Accord commitments, which are now hard-coded into our trade agreements with the EU and UK. * Then Bernard and Peter talked with Simon and Peter about SpaceX, RocketLab, Auckland housing and Labour’s new transport policy. * Peter finished with Donald Trump’s ‘I Love Inflation’ quote as the ‘skateboarding dog’ item. 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. Peter Bal e will be back next we…","meta_description":"The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey talking with regular guest Cathri…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3718,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-hoon-6684157/episodes/the-weekly-hoon-an-amazing-spacex-ipo-nz-s-6-5b-emissions-credits-bill-auckland-s-de-intensification-labour-s-fare-cap-policy/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hoon-6684157/the-weekly-hoon-an-amazing-spacex-ipo-nz-s-6-5b-emissions-credits-bill-auckland-s-de-intensification-labour-s-fare-cap-policy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}